Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 6:24 PM CST for Jefferson 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, 6:24 PM CST (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:55 PM CST | Hail 1 | Pinson, AL | Several reports of nickel to quarter size hail were received in and around the city of Pinson. |
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, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 425 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1281 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 110025 SVRBHM ALC073-110100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 624 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 700 PM CST. * AT 624 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FAIRFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... TARRANT...SYLVAN SPRINGS...PLEASANT GROVE... PINSON-CLAY-CHALKVILLE...MULGA...MINOR...MIDFIELD...MAYTOWN... LIPSCOMB...HOMEWOOD...GARDENDALE...FULTONDALE...FORESTDALE... FAIRFIELD...CENTER POINT...BRIGHTON...BIRMINGHAM AND ADAMSVILLE. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 6:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 6:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 51 min |
| Mar 10, 6:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 44 min |
| Mar 10, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Chilton | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga, Elmore | 53 min |
| Mar 10, 6:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 23 min |
| Mar 10, 6:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Mar 10, 7:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 7:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 7:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby, Talladega | 67 min |
| Mar 10, 7:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 34 min |
| Mar 10, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 64 min |
| Mar 10, 7:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 34 min |
| Mar 10, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens | 24 min |
| Mar 10, 7:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Jefferson | 51 min |
| Mar 10, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 59 min |
| Mar 10, 8:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 8:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 42 min |
| Mar 10, 8:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 8:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 8:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 63 min |
| Mar 10, 8:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 30 min |
| Mar 10, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 8:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson | 42 min |
| Mar 10, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 9:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 9:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 24 min |
| Mar 10, 9:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 23 min |
| Mar 10, 9:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 64 min |
| Mar 10, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 25 min |
| Mar 10, 9:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 9:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Shelby | 53 min |
| Mar 10, 9:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 53 min |
| Mar 10, 9:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 18 min |
| Mar 10, 9:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 18 min |
| Mar 10, 9:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 14 min |
| Mar 10, 9:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 42 min |
| Mar 10, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 51 min |
| Mar 10, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Autauga | 51 min |
| Mar 10, 9:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 19 min |
| Mar 10, 9:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 10:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 41 min |
| Mar 10, 10:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 52 min |
| Mar 10, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 45 min |
| Mar 10, 10:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 45 min |
| Mar 11, 6:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 38 min |
| Mar 11, 7:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock | 41 min |
| Mar 11, 8:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 51 min |
| Mar 11, 8:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.