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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 13, 2005Greene County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 2005, 7:35 PM CST for Greene County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 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, 7:35 PM CST (01:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2005, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greene County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:38 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 13, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 118 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 140135
TORBMX
ALC063-140215-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0004.050314T0135Z-050314T0215Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF EUTAW

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 733 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF
  CLINTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF ALICEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  KNOXVILLE.

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...8 5 6...0 7 5 8.

LAT...LON 3305 8815 3290 8820 3278 8785 3303 8774

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 140213
SVSBMX

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

ALC063-140223-
/O.EXP.KBMX.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050314T0215Z/
GREENE AL-
813 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR GREENE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815 PM CST...

THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED. THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE
WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3305 8815 3290 8820 3278 8785 3303 8774

$$

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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, 7:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount	41 min
Mar 13, 7:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	28 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.