Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 113, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 14, 2007, 4:23 PM CDT for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2007, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Bullock 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 142123 TORBMX ALC011-142200- /O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0113.070414T2123Z-070414T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 423 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BULLOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF UNION SPRINGS... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 420 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 19 MILES WEST OF UNION SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF UNION SPRINGS BY 450 PM CDT... HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER... CALL 1-800-856-0758. LAT...LON 3223 8600 3203 8600 3224 8542 3224 8588 $$ 61
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KBMX 142143 SVSBMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 443 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2007 ALC011-142200- /O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0113.000000T0000Z-070414T2200Z/ BULLOCK AL- 443 PM CDT SAT APR 14 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR BULLOCK COUNTY... AT 439 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SARDIS...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF TROY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SARDIS BY 455 PM CDT... UNION SPRINGS...SEDGEFIELD AND MOTON FIELD MUNICIPAL AIRPORT BY 500 PM CDT... IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3207 8588 3201 8585 3224 8542 3223 8576 $$ 61
The 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, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Apr 14, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 62 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.