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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2014, 1:30 AM CDT for Clay County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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
- Apr 29, 2014, 1:30 AM CDT (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2014, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Clay County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
534 WFUS54 KBMX 290630 TORBMX ALC027-290715- /O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0030.140429T0630Z-140429T0715Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 130 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 215 AM CDT * AT 128 AM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF PARKDALE...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF GOODWATER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... ASHLAND...LINEVILLE...MILLERVILLE AND SPRINGHILL. 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 OR TWEET YOUR REPORT USING HASHTAG ALWX LAT...LON 3311 8605 3319 8610 3344 8583 3326 8567 TIME...MOT...LOC 0630Z 233DEG 22KT 3317 8603 $$ GRANTHAM
1 follow-up statement
201 WWUS54 KBMX 290646 SVSBMX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 146 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 ALC027-290656- /O.CAN.KBMX.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-140429T0715Z/ CLAY AL- 146 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL CLAY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL 1-800-856-0758. LAT...LON 3311 8605 3319 8610 3344 8583 3326 8567 TIME...MOT...LOC 0646Z 233DEG 22KT 3323 8593 $$ GRANTHAM
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, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Hale, Tuscaloosa | 27 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 | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 54 min |
| Apr 28, 10:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.