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Tornado Warning 95, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 2:29 PM CDT for Coosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 16 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
- Aug 29, 2005, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2005, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Coosa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 62 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 291929 TORBMX ALC037-291945- /O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0095.050829T1929Z-050829T1945Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 229 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN COOSA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 226 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR KELLYTON... OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCKFORD...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... STEWARTVILLE BY 235 PM CDT 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 3290 8617 3298 8598 3310 8605 3311 8636 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 11:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 12:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 33 min |
| Aug 29, 12:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 24 min |
| Aug 29, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 35 min |
| Aug 29, 2:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 33 min |
| Aug 29, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 42 min |
| Aug 29, 2:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 18 min |
| Aug 29, 2:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 3:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 28 min |
| Aug 29, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 24 min |
| Aug 29, 3:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon, Montgomery | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 3:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 57 min |
| Aug 29, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 63 min |
| Aug 29, 4:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 57 min |
| Aug 29, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 42 min |
| Aug 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 5:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 28 min |
| Aug 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 25 min |
| Aug 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 16 min |
| Aug 29, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 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.