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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 28, 2014Bibb County, Hale County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2014, 9:48 PM CDT for Bibb County, Hale County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min. 8 reports 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 28, 2014, 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2014, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Bibb County, AL, Hale County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 28, 9:59 PM CDT	TORNADO 1	3 S Shelton State Commu, AL	* 13 INJ * A TORNADO WITH MAX WINDS OF 100MPH TOUCHED DOWN 0.5 MI WEST OF HWY 69 DOWNING HUNDREDS OF TREES AND CAUSING MINOR SHINGLE DAMAGE ACROSS MULTIPLE SUBDIVISIONS, INCLUDING SEVERAL LARGE AND VERY OLD HARDWOODS AT LITTLE SANDY BAPTIST CHURCH. THE TOR
Apr 28, 10:09 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 E Shelton State Commu, AL	TREES DOWN IN TAYLORWOOD ESTATES ASSOCIATED WITH CONFIRMED TORNADO BY LAW OFFICIALS.
Apr 28, 10:09 PM CDT	TORNADO	5 Sse Tuscaloosa, AL	TORNADO CONFIRMED CROSSING BEAR CREEK ROAD.
Apr 28, 10:09 PM CDT	TORNADO	5 Sse Tuscaloosa, AL	SEVERAL DOWNED POWER LINES AND TRANSFORMER BLOWN ON BEAR CREEK ROAD ASSOCIATED WITH CONFIRMED TORNADO.
Apr 28, 10:10 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 Sse Mcfarland Mall, AL	TREES DOWN AND DEBRIS ON HIGHWAY 82 EAST NEAR MILE MARKER 57 ASSOCIATED WITH CONFIRMED TORNADO BY LAW OFFICIALS.
Apr 28, 10:14 PM CDT	TORNADO	3 E Shelton State Commu, AL	TREES DOWN IN TAYLORWOOD ESTATES ASSOCIATED WITH CONFIRMED TORNADO BY LAW OFFICIALS.
Apr 28, 10:18 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 Ese Mcfarland Mall, AL	MOBILE HOME COLLAPSED ON GOLDEN ACRES DRIVE JUST SOUTH OF COTTONDALE. LIKELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE CONFIRMED TORNADO.
Apr 28, 10:23 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 E Mcfarland Mall, AL	CONFIRMED TORNADO ON GROUND NEAR INTERSTATE 59 AND BUTTERMILK ROAD.

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 28, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 1160 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 9.6

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The text

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

272 
WFUS54 KBMX 290248
TORBMX
ALC007-065-125-290315-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0019.140429T0248Z-140429T0315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
948 PM CDT MON APR 28 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL BIBB COUNTY IN ALABAMA...
  NORTH CENTRAL HALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  SOUTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 949 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM
  WAS LOCATED NEAR KNOXVILLE...OR 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUSCALOOSA...
  AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MOUNDVILLE...SHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE...BRYANT DENNY
  STADIUM...MCFARLAND MALL...UNIVERSITY MALL...LAKE WILDWOOD...
  COALING...BROOKWOOD...VANCE AND MOUND STATE PARK.

THIS INCLUDES...
INTERSTATE 20 EXIT NUMBERS 62 THROUGH 89...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES. AS A LAST
RESORT...EITHER PARK YOUR VEHICLE AND STAY PUT...OR ABANDON YOUR
VEHICLE AND LIE DOWN IN A LOW LYING AREA.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR
THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...
CALL 1-800-856-0758 OR TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG ALWX

LAT...LON 3315 8778 3329 8725 3309 8721 3292 8775
      3294 8775 3293 8775 3295 8773 3295 8775
      3298 8775 3299 8771 3302 8772 3302 8777
TIME...MOT...LOC 0249Z 241DEG 29KT 3304 8769

$$

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1 follow-up statement

055 
WWUS54 KBMX 290258
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
958 PM CDT MON APR 28 2014

ALC007-065-125-290315-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-140429T0315Z/
BIBB AL-HALE AL-TUSCALOOSA AL-
958 PM CDT MON APR 28 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN TUSCALOOSA...
NORTH CENTRAL HALE AND NORTHWESTERN BIBB COUNTIES UNTIL 1015 PM
CDT...

AT 958 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNDVILLE...OR 11 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF TUSCALOOSA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SHELTON STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE...BRYANT DENNY STADIUM...MCFARLAND
  MALL...UNIVERSITY MALL...LAKE WILDWOOD...COALING...BROOKWOOD...
  HULL...MAXWELL AND LITTLE SANDY.

THIS INCLUDES...
INTERSTATE 20 EXIT NUMBERS 62 THROUGH 89...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR
THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

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

LAT...LON 3317 8771 3328 8730 3329 8725 3309 8721
      3304 8734 3296 8766
TIME...MOT...LOC 0258Z 241DEG 29KT 3308 8761

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar	63 min
Apr 28, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Marion, Walker	67 min
Apr 28, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Pickens	48 min
Apr 28, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion, Winston	58 min
Apr 28, 7:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa	43 min
Apr 28, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	52 min
Apr 28, 8:03 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Winston	42 min
Apr 28, 8:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	54 min
Apr 28, 8:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens, Tuscaloosa	36 min
Apr 28, 8:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	30 min
Apr 28, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Pickens, Sumter	49 min
Apr 28, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker	63 min
Apr 28, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Pickens, Tuscaloosa	59 min
Apr 28, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens, Tuscaloosa	47 min
Apr 28, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens	45 min
Apr 28, 9:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Sumter	53 min
Apr 28, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Tuscaloosa	51 min
Apr 28, 9:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	66 min
Apr 28, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter	45 min
Apr 28, 9:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	53 min
Apr 28, 10:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount, Jefferson	59 min
Apr 28, 10:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	Tuscaloosa	54 min
Apr 28, 10:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	Jefferson	38 min
Apr 28, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Hale, Marengo, Perry	61 min
Apr 28, 10:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	Jefferson, Tuscaloosa	64 min
Apr 28, 11:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Elmore, Marengo and 1 more	89 min
Apr 28, 11:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount, Etowah	62 min
Apr 29, 12:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa	67 min
Apr 29, 12:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Etowah	52 min
Apr 29, 12:29 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount	61 min
Apr 29, 12:51 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Etowah	54 min
Apr 29, 1:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Coosa, Tallapoosa	65 min
Apr 29, 1:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay	45 min
Apr 29, 1:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga, Elmore	60 min
Apr 29, 1:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	54 min
Apr 29, 2:05 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore, Macon, Montgomery	55 min
Apr 29, 3:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	57 min
Apr 29, 3:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	37 min
Apr 29, 3:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee, Macon	30 min
Apr 29, 3:52 AM CDT	Tornado Warning Emergency	BMX	Lee, Russell	38 min
Apr 29, 5:23 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BMX	Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo, Marion and 5 more	4 hr
Apr 29, 10:00 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo	4 days
Apr 29, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Winston	42 min
Apr 29, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Pickens	40 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.