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Tornado Warning 86, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 6, 2005Coosa County, Elmore County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2005, 6:26 PM CDT for Coosa County, Elmore County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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: Jul 6, 2005, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2005, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Coosa County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Tallapoosa 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
Jul 6, 12:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1118 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 062326
TORBMX
ALC037-051-123-070000-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0086.050706T2326Z-050707T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
626 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN COOSA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  NORTHEASTERN ELMORE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  WEST CENTRAL TALLAPOOSA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...DADEVILLE...ALEXANDER CITY

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 626 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EQUALITY...
  OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF WETUMPKA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  JACKSONS GAP...6 MILES SOUTH OF ALEXANDER CITY AND 7 MILES WEST OF
  DADEVILLE BY 700 PM CDT

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 3273 8625 3258 8613 3280 8573 3298 8589

$$

JONES/90

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 8:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter	4 hr
Jul 6, 11:51 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter	2 hr
Jul 6, 1:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga	29 min
Jul 6, 1:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Montgomery	93 min
Jul 6, 1:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Montgomery	22 min
Jul 6, 1:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga, Elmore	24 min
Jul 6, 1:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore, Macon	36 min
Jul 6, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore	30 min
Jul 6, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga, Lowndes	25 min
Jul 6, 2:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Elmore	2 hr
Jul 6, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon, Tallapoosa	9 min
Jul 6, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Macon, Tallapoosa	15 min
Jul 6, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa	15 min
Jul 6, 2:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga, Lowndes, Montgomery	21 min
Jul 6, 2:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	29 min
Jul 6, 3:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga	26 min
Jul 6, 3:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	32 min
Jul 6, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Russell	16 min
Jul 6, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	30 min
Jul 6, 3:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton, Coosa, Elmore	28 min
Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee	19 min
Jul 6, 3:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	26 min
Jul 6, 3:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Russell	22 min
Jul 6, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee	27 min
Jul 6, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay, Tallapoosa	23 min
Jul 6, 3:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	35 min
Jul 6, 4:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	40 min
Jul 6, 4:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Chambers, Clay, Randolph, Tallapoosa	4 hr
Jul 6, 4:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Russell	17 min
Jul 6, 4:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chilton	23 min
Jul 6, 4:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	33 min
Jul 6, 5:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga, Chilton	27 min
Jul 6, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Russell	33 min
Jul 6, 5:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore	30 min
Jul 6, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee	29 min
Jul 6, 6:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	4 hr
Jul 6, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa	28 min
Jul 6, 6:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Coosa, Talladega	4 hr

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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.