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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2010, 8:09 PM CDT for Fayette County, Pickens County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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 24, 2010, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2010, 8:34 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fayette County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 24, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1231 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 415 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 438 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.6
- Supercell composite
- 15.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
079 WFUS54 KBMX 250109 TORBMX ALC057-107-125-250200- /O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0021.100425T0109Z-100425T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 809 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... NORTHEASTERN PICKENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...REFORM...GORDO... NORTHWESTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 807 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REFORM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... REFORM BY 815 PM CDT... 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF GORDO BY 820 PM CDT... ASHCRAFT CORNER BY 825 PM CDT... 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAMANTHA BY 840 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA. && TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER... CALL 1-800-856-0758. LAT...LON 3368 8770 3337 8752 3328 8811 3340 8815 TIME...MOT...LOC 0109Z 238DEG 43KT 3336 8809 $$ 03
2 follow-up statements
355 WWUS54 KBMX 250121 SVSBMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 821 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010 ALC057-107-125-250200- /O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100425T0200Z/ PICKENS AL-TUSCALOOSA AL-FAYETTE AL- 821 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL FAYETTE...NORTHWESTERN TUSCALOOSA AND NORTHEASTERN PICKENS COUNTIES... AT 816 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NORTH PICKENS AIRPORT...OR NEAR REFORM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ASHCRAFT CORNER AND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF ECHOLA BY 830 PM CDT... MOORES BRIDGE AND BROWNVILLE BY 835 PM CDT... SAMANTHA...NEW LEXINGTON AND 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKE TUSCALOOSA BINION CREEK LANDING BY 845 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA. && TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL 1-800-856-0758. LAT...LON 3330 8798 3343 8805 3368 8770 3337 8752 TIME...MOT...LOC 0121Z 247DEG 39KT 3341 8794 $$ JD/02
840 WWUS54 KBMX 250134 SVSBMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 834 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010 ALC057-107-125-250144- /O.CAN.KBMX.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-100425T0200Z/ PICKENS AL-TUSCALOOSA AL-FAYETTE AL- 834 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL FAYETTE...NORTHWESTERN TUSCALOOSA AND NORTHEASTERN PICKENS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS WEAKENED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL 1-800-856-0758. LAT...LON 3330 8798 3343 8805 3368 8770 3337 8752 TIME...MOT...LOC 0134Z 247DEG 39KT 3346 8778 $$ JD/02
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Pickens | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 7:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Pickens | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 7:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Pickens | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon, Russell | 12 min |
| Apr 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 8:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Walker | 115 min |
| Apr 24, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 49 min |
| Apr 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 20 min |
| Apr 24, 10:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 10:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson, Walker | 38 min |
| Apr 24, 10:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 11:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton, Hale, Shelby, Tuscaloosa | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 38 min |
| Apr 25, 12:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 9 min |
| Apr 25, 12:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 25, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 33 min |
| Apr 25, 4:02 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 13 hr |
| Apr 25, 7:41 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Marengo | 66 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.