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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 26, 2011Chambers County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 26, 2011, 3:07 PM CDT for Chambers County, Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 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: Mar 26, 2011, 3:07 PM CDT (20:07 UTC)
Expired: Mar 26, 2011, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Chambers County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 26, 3:07 PM CDT	HAIL 2	Jacksons Gap, AL

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
Mar 26, 12:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

473 
WFUS54 KBMX 262007
TORBMX
ALC017-123-262100-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0018.110326T2007Z-110326T2100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
307 PM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN CHAMBERS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  CENTRAL TALLAPOOSA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 304 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM
  WAS LOCATED NEAR WIND CREEK STATE PARK...OR NEAR ALEXANDER CITY...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  DADEVILLE...CAMP HILL...JACKSONS' GAP...JACKSONS GAP...WAVERLY...
  RIDGE GROVE...TRAMMEL CROSSROADS...WEST CHAMBERS...STURKIE AND OAK
  BOWERY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.

&&

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...
CALL 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3275 8542 3273 8543 3273 8548 3274 8550
      3273 8557 3277 8595 3295 8594 3302 8543
      3275 8540
TIME...MOT...LOC 2008Z 264DEG 32KT 3287 8584

$$

2 follow-up statements

515 
WWUS54 KBMX 262016
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
316 PM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011

ALC017-123-262100-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-110326T2100Z/
TALLAPOOSA AL-CHAMBERS AL-
316 PM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CHAMBERS AND
CENTRAL TALLAPOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

AT 312 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JACKSONS' GAP...OR NEAR DADEVILLE...MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CAMP HILL...WAVERLY...RIDGE GROVE...TRAMMEL CROSSROADS...WEST
  CHAMBERS...STURKIE...OAK BOWERY...PENTON...EAGLE CREEK AND
  HORSESHOE BEND NATIONAL MILITARY PARK.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3275 8542 3273 8543 3274 8550 3273 8557
      3277 8583 3296 8584 3302 8544 3301 8543
      3275 8540
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 264DEG 32KT 3288 8577

$$

141 
WWUS54 KBMX 262028
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
328 PM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011

ALC017-123-262100-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-110326T2100Z/
TALLAPOOSA AL-CHAMBERS AL-
328 PM CDT SAT MAR 26 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN CHAMBERS AND EAST
CENTRAL TALLAPOOSA COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

AT 326 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF RIDGE GROVE...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF
CAMP HILL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WAVERLY...RIDGE GROVE...TRAMMEL CROSSROADS...WEST CHAMBERS...
  STURKIE...OAK BOWERY AND PENTON.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3275 8542 3273 8543 3274 8550 3273 8557
      3275 8568 3298 8570 3302 8544 3301 8543
      3275 8540
TIME...MOT...LOC 2028Z 264DEG 32KT 3289 8563

$$

JD/02

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 26, 3:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	41 min
Mar 26, 4:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	51 min
Mar 26, 4:48 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Marion, Winston	117 min
Mar 26, 4:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion, Winston	48 min
Mar 26, 6:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marshall	23 min
Mar 26, 7:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Marion	47 min
Mar 26, 12:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Marengo, Sumter	52 min
Mar 26, 1:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Perry	55 min
Mar 26, 1:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	25 min
Mar 26, 1:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Dallas, Perry	39 min
Mar 26, 1:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa	59 min
Mar 26, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Coosa, Tallapoosa	58 min
Mar 26, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Tallapoosa	44 min
Mar 26, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Perry	41 min
Mar 26, 2:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	24 min
Mar 26, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	31 min
Mar 26, 3:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Clay, Randolph, Tallapoosa	43 min
Mar 26, 3:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga, Elmore	49 min
Mar 26, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Etowah	30 min
Mar 26, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour, Bullock, Lee, Macon, Russell	43 min
Mar 26, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Shelby	39 min
Mar 26, 3:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	37 min
Mar 26, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers	35 min
Mar 26, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa	45 min
Mar 26, 4:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chilton, Shelby	38 min
Mar 26, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	40 min
Mar 26, 4:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa, Shelby, Talladega	16 min
Mar 26, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour, Russell	39 min
Mar 26, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Lee, Macon, Russell	51 min
Mar 26, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	33 min
Mar 26, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon, Russell	63 min
Mar 26, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Etowah	51 min
Mar 26, 6:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Russell	24 min
Mar 26, 6:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Etowah	35 min
Mar 26, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	61 min
Mar 26, 6:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Marion	25 min
Mar 26, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, Etowah	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.