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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 10:52 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 10:52 PM CST (04:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 11:40 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1052 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 040453 SVRBHM ALC125-040540- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1052 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY...IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 1140 PM CST. * AT 1049 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM... IN NORTHWEST TUSCALOOSA COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING ...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL AXPPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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 | Franklin, Marion | 28 min |
| Jan 3, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 23 min |
| Jan 3, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 31 min |
| Jan 3, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 9:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 46 min |
| Jan 3, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Jan 3, 11:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 34 min |
| Jan 4, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jan 4, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 32 min |
| Jan 4, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 49 min |
| Jan 4, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 35 min |
| Jan 4, 1:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 31 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.