Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 111, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2007, 3:31 PM CDT for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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
- Apr 14, 2007, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2007, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Montgomery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KBMX 142032
TORBMX
ALC101-142115-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0111.070414T2031Z-070414T2115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
331 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 415 PM CDT
* AT 328 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF HUNTER...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
METRO MONTGOMERY THROUGH 415 PM.
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.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...
CALL 1-800-856-0758.
LAT...LON 3232 8647 3228 8641 3244 8617 3251 8626
3244 8634 3243 8640
$$
61The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 4:50 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 25 min |
| Apr 14, 2:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 62 min |
| Apr 14, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 62 min |
| Apr 14, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 37 min |
| Apr 14, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 54 min |
| Apr 14, 4:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 11 min |
| Apr 14, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 34 min |
| Apr 14, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 33 min |
| Apr 14, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 28 min |
| Apr 14, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 46 min |
| Apr 14, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 35 min |
| Apr 14, 6:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 17 min |
Nearby
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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.