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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2012, 11:01 AM CST for Barbour County, Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 20 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
- Feb 24, 2012, 11:01 AM CST (17:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 11:21 AM CST
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Barbour County, AL, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:48 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
086
WFUS54 KBMX 241701
TORBMX
ALC005-011-241730-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0019.120224T1701Z-120224T1730Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1101 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...
BULLOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 1130 AM CST
* AT 1058 AM CST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM
WAS LOCATED NEAR LINWOOD...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF TROY...AND
MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
UNION SPRINGS...MIDWAY...INVERNESS...BOOT HILL...ABERFOIL...
PICKETT...CLAYTON...BARBOUR COUNTY PUBLIC LAKE DAM...SIMSVILLE AND
TANYARD.
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 3186 8567 3188 8566 3188 8579 3197 8579
3197 8588 3199 8590 3205 8590 3206 8595
3214 8595 3222 8543 3214 8542 3187 8542
TIME...MOT...LOC 1701Z 250DEG 50KT 3194 8581
$$
562 follow-up statements
384
WWUS54 KBMX 241711
SVSBMX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1111 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012
ALC005-011-241730-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-120224T1730Z/
BULLOCK AL-BARBOUR AL-
1111 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL BARBOUR AND
SOUTHEASTERN BULLOCK COUNTIES UNTIL 1130 AM CST...
AT 1108 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PICKETT...OR 14 MILES SOUTH OF
UNION SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BOOT HILL...PICKETT...CLAYTON...BARBOUR COUNTY PUBLIC LAKE DAM...
MOUNT ANDREW AND CLAYTON MUNICIPAL AIRPORT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL 1-800-856-0758.
LAT...LON 3186 8567 3188 8566 3189 8574 3197 8574
3205 8574 3206 8566 3208 8549 3208 8542
3187 8542
TIME...MOT...LOC 1711Z 265DEG 39KT 3194 8567
$$
56689
WWUS54 KBMX 241721
SVSBMX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1121 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012
ALC005-011-241731-
/O.CAN.KBMX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-120224T1730Z/
BULLOCK AL-BARBOUR AL-
1121 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BARBOUR AND SOUTHEASTERN BULLOCK
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.
TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL 1-800-856-0758.
LAT...LON 3186 8567 3188 8566 3189 8574 3197 8574
3205 8574 3206 8566 3208 8549 3208 8542
3187 8542
TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 265DEG 39KT 3194 8554
$$
56The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:36 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Elmore, Tallapoosa | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 7:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 10 min |
| Feb 24, 9:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas, Lowndes | 42 min |
| Feb 24, 9:08 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | BMX | Autauga, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery, Tallapoosa | 3 hr |
| Feb 24, 9:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Lowndes, Macon, Montgomery | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 9:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 45 min |
| Feb 24, 9:50 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Chambers, Tallapoosa | 55 min |
| Feb 24, 9:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Montgomery | 37 min |
| Feb 24, 10:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 10:18 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Macon | 42 min |
| Feb 24, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 10:39 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Elmore | 36 min |
| Feb 24, 10:59 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Tallapoosa | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 11:17 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Randolph | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 11:23 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | BMX | Barbour | 52 min |
| Feb 24, 2:44 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more | 14 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.