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Tornado Warning 151, NWS Birmingham, AL

September 25, 2005Greene County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2005, 6:02 PM CDT for Greene County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Sep 25, 2005, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Sep 25, 2005, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greene County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 25, 6:19 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 Ne Union, AL	HEADING TOWARD KNOXVILLE
Sep 25, 6:19 PM CDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 Ne Union, AL	MANTUA VICINITY, HEADING NORTHEAST TOWARD SIPSEY RIVER. CORRECTED REPORT.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 102 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 252303
TORBMX
ALC063-252330-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0151.050925T2302Z-050925T2330Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 602 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF
  KNOXVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF EUTAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  40 MPH.

THE DEVELOPING TORNADO WILL AFFECT AREAS UNION...SNODDY...AND MANTUA 
THROUGH 630 PM CDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

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

LAT...LON 3314 8788 3315 8785 3304 8783 3303 8782
      3303 8772 3300 8772 3288 8790 3298 8802
      3301 8803

$$

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, 3:27 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, 6:24 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.