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Tornado Warning 96, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 2:33 PM CDT for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2005, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Pike 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 291933
TORBMX
ALC109-292015-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0096.050829T1933Z-050829T2015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
233 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 315 PM CDT
* AT 228 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTH
OF BRUNDIDGE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TROY...MOVING NORTH
AT 55 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BRUNDIDGE BY 240 PM CDT
LINWOOD BY 300 PM CDT
DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...
CALL 1-800-856-0758.
LAT...LON 3165 8594 3197 8597 3207 8596 3205 8590
3200 8590 3196 8587 3196 8579 3188 8579
3188 8572 3167 8572 3163 8574 3163 8593
$$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, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 16 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.