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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 27, 2009, 3:42 PM CST for Hale County, Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 18 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 27, 2009, 3:42 PM CST (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2009, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hale County, AL, Perry County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 3:56 PM CST | TORNADO 0 | 5 N Greensboro, AL | MULTIPLE 911 CALLS RECEIVED FROM THE PUBLIC OF TORNADO CROSSING AL HWY 69. BRIEF EFO TOUCHDOWN...ONE TREE DOWN AND NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE REPORTED. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 12:38 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 398 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 400 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 272142 TORBMX ALC065-105-272200- /O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0035.090227T2142Z-090227T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 342 PM CST FRI FEB 27 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME NORTHWESTERN PERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... NORTHERN HALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 339 PM CST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SAWYERVILLE...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENSBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HARPER HILL BY 355 PM CST... 6 MILES WEST OF WATEROAK AND 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PHIPPS BY 400 PM CST... 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 3298 8744 3283 8742 3272 8773 3287 8780 TIME...MOT...LOC 2143Z 244DEG 25KT 3281 8768 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 4:56 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | BMX | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 25 more | 25 hr |
| Feb 27, 8:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 54 min |
| Feb 27, 8:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 51 min |
| Feb 27, 8:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 38 min |
| Feb 27, 9:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Feb 27, 10:17 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega | 28 min |
| Feb 27, 10:25 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chilton, Clay, Coosa and 10 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 11:26 AM CST | Lake Wind Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Marengo, Perry | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 12:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Dallas | 45 min |
| Feb 27, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton | 29 min |
| Feb 27, 1:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Lowndes | 62 min |
| Feb 27, 1:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore, Montgomery | 67 min |
| Feb 27, 2:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 2:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 66 min |
| Feb 27, 2:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 28 min |
| Feb 27, 2:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 58 min |
| Feb 27, 2:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 63 min |
| Feb 27, 3:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 3:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 3:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 28 min |
| Feb 27, 3:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 65 min |
| Feb 27, 3:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby, Tuscaloosa | 57 min |
| Feb 27, 3:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Hale, Perry | 63 min |
| Feb 27, 4:20 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Hale, Perry | 40 min |
| Feb 27, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 4:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 20 min |
| Feb 27, 4:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 27, 4:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Perry | 53 min |
| Feb 27, 5:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 42 min |
| Feb 27, 5:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Perry, Sumter | 41 min |
| Feb 27, 5:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Marengo, Sumter | 46 min |
| Feb 27, 5:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Chilton, Elmore, Montgomery | 37 min |
| Feb 27, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter | 45 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.