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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 13, 2005Cleburne County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 2005, 8:40 PM CST for Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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, 8:40 PM CST (02:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2005, 9:15 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cleburne County, AL

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 194 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 140241
TORBMX
ALC029-140315-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0007.050314T0240Z-050314T0315Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CLEBURNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF HEFLIN

* UNTIL 915 PM CST

* AT 841 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES       
  NORTHWEST OF HEFLIN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF ANNISTON...MOVING   
  EAST AT 35 MPH.  A WALL CLOUD WAS REPORTED NEAR JACKSONVILLE AT    
  840 PM CST.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HEFLIN BY 850 PM CST
  EDWARDSVILLE BY 855 PM CST

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 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3378 8561 3359 8568 3353 8514 3376 8511

$$

MBS/91

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 140257
SVSBMX

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

ALC029-140315-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050314T0315Z/
CLEBURNE AL-
857 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 915 PM CST FOR SOUTHERN 
CLEBURNE COUNTY...

AT 857 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HEFLIN...MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
   FRUITHURST BY 900 PM CST

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 3378 8561 3359 8568 3353 8514 3376 8511

$$

MBS/91

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, 7:35 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, 8:56 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.