1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 13, 3:27 PM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 327 PM CST MON MAR 13 2006 .DISCUSSION...ALL EYES ARE SET ON TONIGHTS EVENT. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE STATE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE BIG QUESTION IS IF IT WILL BE SEVERE OR NOT. THE LATEST 18Z BMX SOUNDING SHOWED THAT THE CAP ALOFT REMAINS STRONG...BUT NOT QUITE AS STRONG AS THIS MORNING. THE MAIN AREA OF CONCERN AT THE MOMENT IS WEST OF INTERSTATE 65 AND NORTH OF ALICEVILLE AND FOSTERS. THIS IS WHERE DYNAMICS ARE IN BETTER SHAPE FOR SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDING ISOLATED TORNADOES. HENCE WHY A TORNADO WATCH WAS ISSUED. WE WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LINE AS IT MOVES TO THE EAST TO SEE IF IT BECOMES STRONGER OF IF IT WEAKENS. IF THE LINE DOES BECOME STRONGER...THE WATCH COULD BE EXTENDED EASTWARD LATER TONIGHT. RAIN CHANCES WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT AS THE FRONT MOVES ACROSS. SOME LINGERING SHOWERS WILL BE LEFT ACROSS OUR SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. BIG CHANGES ARE ON TAP TOMORROW WITH WINDY CONDITIONS AND MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES. SINCE TEMPERATURES HAVE BEEN IN THE 80S OVER MUCH OF THE AREA THE LAST FEW DAYS...THIS KIND OF CHANGE WILL BE A BIT BRISK. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO SUBSIDE BY TUESDAY NIGHT AS THE DOME OF HIGH PRESSURE MOVES IN. THIS WILL RESULT IN PERFECT RADIATIONAL COOLING NIGHT WHICH WILL HELP TEMPERATURES DROP INTO THE 30S OVER MUCH OF THE CWA. DRY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF WEDNESDAY. THE NEXT COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS ON THURSDAY BRINGING US ADDITIONAL SHOWERS TO THE AREA. WE WILL BE VERY STABLE SO NO THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN ESTABLISH OVER THE AREA ON FRIDAY AND REMAIN THROUGH LATE SUNDAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE AREA LATE SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. THIS IS THE SYSTEM TO WATCH AS THE LONG RANGE MODELS HINT THAT THIS COULD BE A STRONG SYSTEM. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GADSDEN 47 56 30 65 / 90 10 0 0 ANNISTON 49 59 34 66 / 90 10 0 0 BIRMINGHAM 46 59 34 67 / 90 10 0 0 TUSCALOOSA 44 63 35 68 / 80 10 0 0 CALERA 50 60 36 68 / 90 10 0 0 AUBURN 55 63 36 67 / 80 10 0 0 MONTGOMERY 52 64 34 69 / 90 10 0 0 TROY 56 65 36 68 / 70 20 0 0 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL ALABAMA THROUGH 6 PM CST. && 10/ARM
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
509 PM CST MON MAR 13 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
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..REMARKS..
0505 PM TSTM WND DMG 15 N FAYETTE 33.91N 87.83W
03/13/2006 FAYETTE AL COUNTY OFFICIAL
POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NORTHERN FAYETTE. TREES BLOWN DOWN
ALONG US 43 NEAR WEEKS ROAD.
&&
LINHARESPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
512 PM CST MON MAR 13 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0450 PM TSTM WND DMG 15 N FAYETTE 33.91N 87.83W
03/13/2006 FAYETTE AL COUNTY OFFICIAL
POSSIBLE TORNADO IN NORTHERN FAYETTE. TREES BLOWN DOWN
ALONG US 43 NEAR WEEKS ROAD.
&&
LINHARESPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
514 PM CST MON MAR 13 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0448 PM TSTM WND DMG WINFIELD 33.93N 87.80W
03/13/2006 MARION AL EMERGENCY MNGR
POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR WINFIELD. TREES AND POWER LINES
WERE BLOWN DOWN ALONG US 43 IN WINFIELD.
&&
LINHARESPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
519 PM CST MON MAR 13 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0516 PM TSTM WND DMG KENNEDY 33.58N 87.99W
03/13/2006 LAMAR AL EMERGENCY MNGR
POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR KENNEDY. A FEW STRUCTURES HAVE BEEN
DAMAGED ALONG HIGHWAY 17.
&&
LINHARESPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
524 PM CST MON MAR 13 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0502 PM TSTM WND DMG 6 SW MILLPORT 33.50N 88.15W
03/13/2006 PICKENS AL LAW ENFORCEMENT
POSSIBLE TORNADO SOUTHWEST OF MILLPORT. DEBRIS VISIBLE
AND A FEW TREES BLOWN DOWN JUST SOUTH OF SR 96 AND FIELDS
ROAD.
&&
LINHARESPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
532 PM CST MON MAR 13 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0528 PM FUNNEL CLOUD 3 E CARBON HILL 33.90N 87.47W
03/13/2006 WALKER AL EMERGENCY MNGR
SEVERAL FUNNEL CLOUDS REPORTED FROM ELDRIDGE TO CARBON
HILL TO NEAR MANCHESTER.
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LINHARESThe Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:53 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
An F0 tornado briefly touched down in rural northern Tuscaloosa County just east of US Highway 43. The tornado produced little to no damage. A storm spotter captured images of the tornado.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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