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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 30, 2005Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2005, 8:12 AM CDT for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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: Apr 30, 2005, 8:12 AM CDT (13:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2005, 8:49 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barbour County, AL

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 30, 5:05 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 787 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 536 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 301 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 12.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 301312
TORBMX
ALC005-301345-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0053.050430T1312Z-050430T1345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
812 AM CDT SAT APR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 845 AM CDT

* AT 809 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF BATESVILLE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES WEST OF EUFAULA...
  MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

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

LAT...LON 3201 8551 3189 8549 3196 8508 3206 8506
      3207 8519 3215 8526 3215 8542 3203 8543

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 301349
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
849 AM CDT SAT APR 30 2005

ALC005-301359-
/O.EXP.KBMX.TO.W.0053.000000T0000Z-050430T1345Z/
BARBOUR AL-
849 AM CDT SAT APR 30 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY EXPIRES AT 845
AM CDT...

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

LAT...LON 3201 8551 3189 8549 3196 8508 3206 8506
      3207 8519 3215 8526 3215 8542 3203 8543

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 30, 2:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	33 min
Apr 30, 2:49 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	34 min
Apr 30, 3:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	56 min
Apr 30, 3:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	44 min
Apr 30, 3:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount	35 min
Apr 30, 3:48 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	57 min
Apr 30, 4:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	29 min
Apr 30, 4:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marengo	52 min
Apr 30, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa	33 min
Apr 30, 4:43 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Calhoun	32 min
Apr 30, 4:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	55 min
Apr 30, 4:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marengo	48 min
Apr 30, 5:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, Cleburne	39 min
Apr 30, 5:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	35 min
Apr 30, 5:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	48 min
Apr 30, 5:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	28 min
Apr 30, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	50 min
Apr 30, 5:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	51 min
Apr 30, 5:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	65 min
Apr 30, 5:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	43 min
Apr 30, 6:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	38 min
Apr 30, 6:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	67 min
Apr 30, 6:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	63 min
Apr 30, 6:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	14 min
Apr 30, 6:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	66 min
Apr 30, 6:27 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Dallas	33 min
Apr 30, 6:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	39 min
Apr 30, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	34 min
Apr 30, 6:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Lowndes	47 min
Apr 30, 6:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lee	67 min
Apr 30, 6:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lowndes	18 min
Apr 30, 7:02 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Montgomery	43 min
Apr 30, 7:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	17 min
Apr 30, 7:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	51 min
Apr 30, 7:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon	45 min
Apr 30, 7:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	63 min
Apr 30, 8:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bullock	12 min
Apr 30, 8:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	45 min
Apr 30, 8:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Russell	34 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.