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Tornado Warning 192, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 13, 2005, 8:23 AM CST for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2005, 8:23 AM CST (14:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2005, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:26 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 301 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KBMX 131423
TORBMX
ALC057-131515-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
823 AM CST THU JAN 13 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 915 AM CST
* AT 821 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF
BERRY...OR ABOUT NEAR FAYETTE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 3372 8782 3362 8784 3362 8742 3368 8742
3370 8754 3378 8753
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 7:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 48 min |
| Jan 13, 7:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 38 min |
| Jan 13, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 48 min |
| Jan 13, 7:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 31 min |
| Jan 13, 7:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 46 min |
| Jan 13, 8:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 42 min |
| Jan 13, 8:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 59 min |
| Jan 13, 8:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 58 min |
| Jan 13, 8:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Jan 13, 8:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Jan 13, 8:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 63 min |
| Jan 13, 9:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 26 min |
| Jan 13, 9:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 28 min |
| Jan 13, 9:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 30 min |
| Jan 13, 9:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 8 min |
| Jan 13, 9:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 66 min |
| Jan 13, 9:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 62 min |
| Jan 13, 9:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 40 min |
| Jan 13, 10:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Marengo | 41 min |
| Jan 13, 11:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 34 min |
| Jan 13, 11:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 34 min |
| Jan 13, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Russell | 58 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.