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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 13, 2005Blount County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 2005, 7:19 PM CST for Blount County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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 13, 2005, 7:19 PM CST (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2005, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Blount County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 140119
TORBMX
ALC009-140200-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0003.050314T0119Z-050314T0200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
719 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BLOUNT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ONEONTA

* UNTIL 800 PM CST

* AT 719 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CLEVELAND...OR ABOUT 6    
  MILES NORTHEAST OF WARRIOR...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ONEONTA BY 725 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.

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

LAT...LON 3418 8657 3381 8673 3385 8648 3413 8636

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 140154
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
754 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005

ALC073-140204-
/O.CAN.KBMX.SV.W.0065.000000T0000Z-050314T0200Z/
JEFFERSON AL-
754 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE
WARNING HAVE WEAKENED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST
SUNDAY EVENING FOR WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3378 8695 3360 8695 3363 8659 3374 8657

$$

KH/99

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	36 min
Mar 13, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	41 min
Mar 13, 6:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	61 min
Mar 13, 7:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	44 min
Mar 13, 7:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	47 min
Mar 13, 7:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens, Sumter	31 min
Mar 13, 7:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	28 min
Mar 13, 7:35 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	40 min
Mar 13, 7:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	39 min
Mar 13, 7:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb	67 min
Mar 13, 7:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Pickens	36 min
Mar 13, 8:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	43 min
Mar 13, 8:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Calhoun	41 min
Mar 13, 8:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cleburne	35 min
Mar 13, 8:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	49 min
Mar 13, 9:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	26 min
Mar 13, 10:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	31 min
Mar 13, 10:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton	43 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.