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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 3, 2015Autauga County, Montgomery County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2015, 8:48 PM CST for Autauga County, Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 16 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: Jan 3, 2015, 8:48 PM CST (02:48 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2015, 9:04 PM CST
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Autauga County, AL, Montgomery County, AL

The radar

The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:47 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

431 
WFUS54 KBMX 040248
TORBMX
ALC001-101-040315-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0007.150104T0248Z-150104T0315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
848 PM CST SAT JAN 3 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN AUTAUGA COUNTY IN ALABAMA...
  NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 915 PM CST

* AT 845 PM CST...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM
  WAS LOCATED NEAR CANTELOUS...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF PRATTVILLE...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  HUNTER...MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE...MONTGOMERY RIVERWALK STADIUM...
  ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY...ALABAMA STATE CAPITOL...MONTGOMERY
  ZOO...BOYLSTON...GUNTER AIR FORCE BASE...LAGOON PARK AND BOB
  WOODRUFF LAKE.

THIS INCLUDES...
INTERSTATE 65 EXIT NUMBERS 172 THROUGH 176...
INTERSTATE 85 EXIT NUMBER 1...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

&&

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

LAT...LON 3230 8649 3234 8648 3234 8653 3247 8643
      3241 8641 3243 8640 3243 8634 3241 8631
      3249 8631 3247 8629 3249 8626 3250 8626
      3245 8619 3243 8619 3243 8615 3228 8647
TIME...MOT...LOC 0248Z 229DEG 31KT 3235 8645

$$

05/MA

2 follow-up statements

471 
WWUS54 KBMX 040257
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
857 PM CST SAT JAN 3 2015

ALC001-040307-
/O.CAN.KBMX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-150104T0315Z/
AUTAUGA AL-
857 PM CST SAT JAN 3 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN AUTAUGA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

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

LAT...LON 3240 8643 3243 8638 3243 8634 3241 8631
      3249 8631 3247 8628 3250 8626 3245 8619
      3243 8619 3243 8615 3236 8641
TIME...MOT...LOC 0257Z 229DEG 31KT 3240 8638

$$

ALC101-040315-
/O.CON.KBMX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-150104T0315Z/
MONTGOMERY AL-
857 PM CST SAT JAN 3 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY
COUNTY UNTIL 915 PM CST...

AT 855 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HUNTER...OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF PRATTVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MONTGOMERY ZOO...BOYLSTON...GUNTER AIR FORCE BASE...LAGOON PARK AND
  TALLAPOOSA RIVER WATER PLANT.

THIS INCLUDES...
INTERSTATE 65 EXIT NUMBERS 173 THROUGH 176...

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

LAT...LON 3240 8643 3243 8638 3243 8634 3241 8631
      3249 8631 3247 8628 3250 8626 3245 8619
      3243 8619 3243 8615 3236 8641
TIME...MOT...LOC 0257Z 229DEG 31KT 3240 8638

$$

05/MA

417 
WWUS54 KBMX 040304
SVSBMX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
904 PM CST SAT JAN 3 2015

ALC101-040315-
/O.CAN.KBMX.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-150104T0315Z/
MONTGOMERY AL-
904 PM CST SAT JAN 3 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF  THE WARNED 
AREA.

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

LAT...LON 3240 8643 3243 8638 3243 8634 3241 8631
      3249 8631 3247 8628 3250 8626 3245 8619
      3243 8619 3243 8615 3236 8641
TIME...MOT...LOC 0305Z 229DEG 31KT 3245 8632

$$

05/MA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 6:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale	43 min
Jan 3, 6:11 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Pickens, Sumter	3 hr
Jan 3, 6:31 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Fayette, Hale, Marion, Tuscaloosa, Walker	3 hr
Jan 3, 6:53 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Bibb, Blount, Fayette, Hale, Jefferson, Perry and 3 more	3 hr
Jan 3, 7:10 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Bibb, Blount, Etowah, St. Clair, Shelby	50 min
Jan 3, 7:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Etowah, Talladega	47 min
Jan 3, 8:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Lowndes	45 min
Jan 3, 8:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	29 min
Jan 3, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Montgomery	21 min
Jan 3, 9:08 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Greene, Lamar, Pickens, Sumter	3 hr
Jan 3, 9:18 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Elmore	42 min
Jan 3, 9:20 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Sumter	5 days
Jan 3, 9:39 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Lamar, Marengo, Pickens, Sumter	3 hr
Jan 3, 9:48 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	BMX	Fayette, Hale, Marion, Tuscaloosa	3 hr
Jan 3, 11:00 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Jefferson, Perry, Shelby and 2 more	3 hr
Jan 4, 1:40 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo, Pickens and 2 more	3 hr
Jan 4, 2:00 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	BMX	Bibb, Chilton, Jefferson, Perry, Shelby, Walker	3 hr
Jan 4, 2:56 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	BMX	Chambers, Elmore, Macon, Montgomery, Tallapoosa	64 min
Jan 4, 3:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	24 min
Jan 4, 6:18 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Tuscaloosa	38 hr
Jan 4, 6:18 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter, Tuscaloosa	71 hr
Jan 4, 8:05 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter	63 hr
Jan 4, 8:05 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby	25 hr
Jan 4, 8:05 AM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Bibb, Dallas, Perry	35 hr
Jan 4, 1:27 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Chilton, Coosa, Elmore, Shelby, Talladega	21 hr
Jan 4, 1:32 PM CST	River Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, Walker	41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.