Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 4:54 PM CST for Walker County, Winston County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2000, 4:54 PM CST (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 4:55 PM CST | Hail 1 | Parrish, AL | One inch diameter size hail fell in the Aldridge area. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 938 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
053 WUUS54 KBMX 102255 SVRBHM ALC127-133-102330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 454 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... WINSTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 530 PM CST. * AT 454 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF KANSAS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NAUVOO...LYNN...KANSAS...DOUBLE SPRINGS...CARBON HILL AND ARLEY. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS WARNING ISSUED FOR WALKER COUNTY. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 35 min |
| Mar 9, 9:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 18 min |
| Mar 10, 1:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 2:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| Mar 10, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 43 min |
| Mar 10, 6:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 8:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 10:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Talladega | 23 min |
| Mar 10, 11:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 11:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 11:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 11:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 28 min |
| Mar 10, 1:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 1:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon, Montgomery | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 3:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Russell | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 4:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 49 min |
| Mar 10, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 26 min |
| Mar 10, 4:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 24 min |
| Mar 10, 4:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Mar 10, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 42 min |
| Mar 10, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 23 min |
| Mar 10, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 5:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 42 min |
| Mar 10, 5:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 26 min |
| Mar 10, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 5:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 33 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.