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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2010, 8:15 PM CDT for Fayette County, Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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
- Apr 24, 2010, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2010, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fayette County, AL, Walker County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 8:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 8 W Oakman, AL | HOMES DAMAGED, TREES DOWN, AND POWERLINES DOWN ON FULTON HILL ROAD, MITCHELL MOUNTAIN ROAD, AND WOLF CREEK ROAD. POSSIBLE TORNADO. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 75 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.
786
WFUS54 KBMX 250115
TORBMX
ALC057-127-250200-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0022.100425T0115Z-100425T0200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
815 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...JASPER...CORDOVA...
EAST CENTRAL FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 900 PM CDT
* AT 811 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
OAKMAN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
OAKMAN BY 835 PM CDT...
PARRISH AND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GORGAS BY 845 PM CDT...
6 MILES SOUTH OF JASPER AND 8 MILES NORTH OF GORGAS STEAM PLANT BY
850 PM CDT...
CORDOVA BY 855 PM CDT...
THIS INCLUDES...
US 78 EXIT NUMBERS 57 THROUGH 72
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 3364 8711 3359 8737 3361 8737 3361 8749
3375 8756 3392 8726
TIME...MOT...LOC 0115Z 248DEG 31KT 3365 8758
$$
JD/021 follow-up statement
431 WWUS54 KBMX 250142 SVSBMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 842 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010 ALC057-250152- /O.CAN.KBMX.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-100425T0200Z/ FAYETTE AL- 842 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL FAYETTE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL 1-800-856-0758. LAT...LON 3363 8730 3378 8739 3392 8726 3364 8711 TIME...MOT...LOC 0142Z 242DEG 32KT 3371 8728 $$ ALC127-250200- /O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-100425T0200Z/ WALKER AL- 842 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2010 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR EASTERN WALKER COUNTY... AT 839 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONTINUED TO DETECT A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PARRISH...OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CORDOVA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CORDOVA AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF JASPER BY 850 PM CDT... THIS INCLUDES... US 78 EXIT NUMBERS 61 THROUGH 72 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 3363 8730 3378 8739 3392 8726 3364 8711 TIME...MOT...LOC 0142Z 242DEG 32KT 3371 8728 $$ 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, 8:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa | 25 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.