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Tornado Warning 140, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 25, 2005Fayette County, Walker County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2005, 3:27 PM CDT for Fayette County, Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fayette County, AL, Walker County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 252029
TORBMX
ALC057-127-252100-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0140.050925T2027Z-050925T2100Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
  EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 327 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO NEAR BERRY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF              
  FAYETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BERRY BY 331 PM CDT
  CARBON HILL BY 350 PM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGE ALONG ITS PATH.

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

LAT...LON 3400 8752 3400 8728 3399 8727 3399 8722
      3362 8750 3363 8763 3360 8764 3359 8766
      3364 8776

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 252042
SVSBMX

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

ALC057-127-252100-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0140.000000T0000Z-050925T2100Z/
FAYETTE AL-WALKER AL-
341 PM CDT SUN SEP 25 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN
WALKER AND EASTERN FAYETTE COUNTIES...

AT 341 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BERRY...OR ABOUT
16 MILES EAST OF FAYETTE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARBON HILL BY 350 PM CDT
  NEAR THE CITY OF TOWNLEY BY 350 PM CDT 

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.

LAT...LON 3387 8764 3400 8728 3399 8727 3379 8737
      3362 8750 3363 8763 3360 8764 3359 8766
      3364 8776

$$
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, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	31 min
Sep 25, 3:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	28 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

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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.