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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 22, 2005Dallas County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2005, 9:55 PM CST for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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: Mar 22, 2005, 9:55 PM CST (03:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2005, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Dallas County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 22, 6:50 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 230356
TORBMX
ALC047-230430-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0016.050323T0355Z-050323T0430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
955 PM CST TUE MAR 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL DALLAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 951 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER EAST
  CENTRAL PERRY COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF SELMA...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  STONEWALL AROUND 1010 PM CST
  PAUL M GRIST STATE PARK AROUND 1010 PM CST

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.

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

LAT...LON 3266 8703 3247 8712 3251 8690 3267 8692

$$

03/92

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 6:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	65 min
Mar 22, 7:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	62 min
Mar 22, 7:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	32 min
Mar 22, 7:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	42 min
Mar 22, 7:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	48 min
Mar 22, 7:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	32 min
Mar 22, 8:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	49 min
Mar 22, 8:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	27 min
Mar 22, 8:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	23 min
Mar 22, 9:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Perry	47 min
Mar 22, 10:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chilton	55 min
Mar 22, 10:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	32 min
Mar 22, 10:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	36 min
Mar 22, 11:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton	41 min
Mar 22, 11:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chilton	10 min
Mar 22, 11:39 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa	51 min
Mar 22, 11:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	38 min
Mar 22, 11:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	50 min
Mar 23, 12:09 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay, Tallapoosa	36 min
Mar 23, 12:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	45 min
Mar 23, 12:30 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	20 min
Mar 23, 12:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	38 min
Mar 23, 12:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	51 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.