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Tornado Warning 138, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 25, 2005Pickens County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2005, 3:14 PM CDT for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 25, 2005, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2005, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pickens County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 25, 11:05 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Sep 25, 12:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 245 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 252014
TORBMX
ALC107-252045-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0138.050925T2014Z-050925T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
314 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PICKENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 311 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF GORDO...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALICEVILLE...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...
CALL 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3325 8798 3321 8796 3324 8784 3344 8783

$$

61

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 252032
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
331 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

ALC107-252045-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0138.000000T0000Z-050925T2045Z/
PICKENS AL-
331 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR EASTERN
PICKENS COUNTY...

AT 331 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GORDO...OR ABOUT
13 MILES WEST OF LAKE LURLEEN STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR CENTRAL ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3325 8798 3321 8796 3324 8784 3344 8783
$$
JBW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 25, 12:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	25 min
Sep 25, 12:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	44 min
Sep 25, 12:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	31 min
Sep 25, 12:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	27 min
Sep 25, 12:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette	42 min
Sep 25, 1:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	45 min
Sep 25, 1:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	14 min
Sep 25, 1:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	27 min
Sep 25, 1:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion	38 min
Sep 25, 1:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	28 min
Sep 25, 2:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette	40 min
Sep 25, 2:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	51 min
Sep 25, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	15 min
Sep 25, 2:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	44 min
Sep 25, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion	52 min
Sep 25, 2:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette	49 min
Sep 25, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	62 min
Sep 25, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	45 min
Sep 25, 3:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	28 min
Sep 25, 3:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	33 min
Sep 25, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	60 min
Sep 25, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	25 min
Sep 25, 3:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	6 min
Sep 25, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	15 min
Sep 25, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	55 min
Sep 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	20 min
Sep 25, 4:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	15 min
Sep 25, 5:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	65 min
Sep 25, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	10 min
Sep 25, 5:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	23 min
Sep 25, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	28 min
Sep 25, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	31 min
Sep 25, 6:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	47 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.