Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 178, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 28, 2005, 5:42 PM CST for Chilton 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 28, 2005, 5:42 PM CST (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 28, 2005, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chilton County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 28, 9:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Nov 28, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 47 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 522 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 310 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 282342 TORBMX ALC021-290000- /O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0178.051128T2342Z-051129T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 542 PM CST MON NOV 28 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN CHILTON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 542 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR VERBENA... OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF CLANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... INGRAM BY 550 PM CST 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. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER... CALL 1-800-856-0758. LAT...LON 3279 8667 3271 8662 3276 8642 3292 8656 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KBMX 282349 SVSBMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 549 PM CST MON NOV 28 2005 ALC021-290000- /O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0178.000000T0000Z-051129T0000Z/ CHILTON AL- 549 PM CST MON NOV 28 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR EAST CENTRAL CHILTON COUNTY... AT 545 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A STORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VERBENA...OR JUST SOUTH OF CLANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... INGRAM BY 555 PM CST LAT...LON 3279 8667 3271 8662 3276 8642 3292 8656 $$ STEFKOVICH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 27, 9:26 PM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 28, 4:05 AM CST | Wind Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 14 hr |
| Nov 28, 9:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 36 min |
| Nov 28, 10:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 30 min |
| Nov 28, 11:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 26 min |
| Nov 28, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 45 min |
| Nov 28, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 42 min |
| Nov 28, 11:51 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 24 min |
| Nov 28, 12:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 40 min |
| Nov 28, 12:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 35 min |
| Nov 28, 1:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 42 min |
| Nov 28, 1:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 38 min |
| Nov 28, 2:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 43 min |
| Nov 28, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 16 min |
| Nov 28, 3:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 43 min |
| Nov 28, 3:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 51 min |
| Nov 28, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo | 22 min |
| Nov 28, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Perry | 31 min |
| Nov 28, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 4 min |
| Nov 28, 4:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 37 min |
| Nov 28, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 23 min |
| Nov 28, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 48 min |
| Nov 28, 4:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 16 min |
| Nov 28, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 12 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.