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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 13, 2005Pickens County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 13, 2005, 10:14 PM CST for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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, 10:14 PM CST (04:14 UTC)
Expired: Mar 13, 2005, 10:45 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Pickens County, AL

The radar

The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:18 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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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 140414
TORBMX
ALC107-140445-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0008.050314T0414Z-050314T0445Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1014 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1045 PM CST

* AT 1010 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR REFORM...OR
  ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF ALICEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

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

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

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

LAT...LON 3345 8814 3345 8807 3346 8806 3349 8784
      3330 8785 3329 8788 3328 8813 3343 8814
      3344 8815

$$

JD

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KBMX 140433
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1034 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005

ALC107-140444-
/O.CAN.KBMX.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050314T0445Z/
PICKENS AL-
1034 PM CST SUN MAR 13 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL PICKENS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

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

LAT...LON 3345 8814 3345 8807 3346 8806 3349 8784
      3330 8785 3329 8788 3328 8813 3343 8814
      3344 8815

$$

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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, 7:35 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, 10:32 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.