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Tornado Warning 157, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 15, 2005Lamar County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2005, 6:42 PM CST for Lamar County, Alabama. It was in force for 18 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: Nov 15, 2005, 6:42 PM CST (00:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lamar County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Nov 15, 3:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 440 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 160042
TORBMX
ALC075-160100-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0157.051116T0042Z-051116T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
642 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 639 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EAST
  CENTRAL LAMAR COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES WEST OF FAYETTE...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 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 3383 8803 3360 8803 3360 8794 3384 8795

$$

61

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 160103
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
703 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

ALC075-160113-
/O.EXP.KBMX.TO.W.0157.000000T0000Z-051116T0100Z/
LAMAR AL-
703 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL LAMAR COUNTY EXPIRED AT 
700 PM CST...

AT 703 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE 
WARNED AREA. THUS...THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST TUESDAY EVENING 
FOR NORTHWESTERN ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3383 8803 3360 8803 3360 8794 3384 8795

$$

MBS/91

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 6:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lamar	30 min
Nov 15, 6:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette	48 min
Nov 15, 7:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	52 min
Nov 15, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	29 min
Nov 15, 8:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	11 min
Nov 15, 8:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	55 min
Nov 15, 9:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	66 min
Nov 15, 9:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	46 min
Nov 16, 3:51 AM CST	Freeze Warning	BMX	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more	29 hr

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.