Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 33, NWS Huntsville, AL
NWS Huntsville, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 2012, 5:50 PM CDT for Franklin County, Lawrence 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
- Sep 2, 2012, 5:50 PM CDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2012, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Huntsville, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Franklin County, AL, Lawrence County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 2:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1480 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
995 WFUS54 KHUN 022250 TORHUN ALC059-079-022315- /O.NEW.KHUN.TO.W.0033.120902T2250Z-120902T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL 550 PM CDT SUN SEP 2 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTSVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... SOUTHWESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 546 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PHIL CAMPBELL...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF HALEYVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... PHIL CAMPBELL. RURAL PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST FRANKLIN AND SOUTHWEST LAWRENCE COUNTIES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ISSUED FOR THE SAME AREA. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 3445 8774 3448 8737 3430 8738 3431 8775 TIME...MOT...LOC 2246Z 272DEG 16KT 3436 8768 $$ RSB
1 follow-up statement
521
WWUS54 KHUN 022306
SVSHUN
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTSVILLE AL
606 PM CDT SUN SEP 2 2012
ALC059-079-022315-
/O.CON.KHUN.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-120902T2315Z/
FRANKLIN AL-LAWRENCE AL-
606 PM CDT SUN SEP 2 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN AND SOUTHWESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTIES...
AT 600 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
NEAR PHIL CAMPBELL...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF HALEYVILLE...MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTHEASTERN FRANKLIN AND SOUTHWESTERN LAWRENCE COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR
HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW!
&&
LAT...LON 3442 8763 3439 8737 3433 8738 3430 8739
3431 8767
TIME...MOT...LOC 2300Z 288DEG 16KT 3433 8761
$$
RSBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Huntsville, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 12:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Jackson | 26 min |
| Sep 2, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Limestone | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Colbert | 34 min |
| Sep 2, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Colbert, Lawrence | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 4:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 4:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 33 min |
| Sep 2, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison | 35 min |
| Sep 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson | 26 min |
| Sep 2, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 25 min |
| Sep 2, 5:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Lawrence, Morgan | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 5:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 27 min |
| Sep 2, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Limestone, Madison | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 5:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Madison | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson, Madison | 35 min |
| Sep 2, 5:44 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Madison | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 30 min |
| Sep 2, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 20 min |
| Sep 2, 5:58 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Marshall | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | HUN | Jackson | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 6:07 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | HUN | Franklin, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Lauderdale | 45 min |
| Sep 2, 6:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | DeKalb | 53 min |
| Sep 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Franklin | 15 min |
| Sep 2, 6:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | HUN | Marshall | 53 min |
| Sep 2, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | HUN | Cullman, Marshall, Morgan | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.