Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 150, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 9:20 PM CST for Bibb County, Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 min. 2 reports 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, 9:20 PM CST (03:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bibb County, AL, Perry County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 9:23 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | West Blocton, AL | Dime size hail was observed in West Blocton. |
| Mar 10, 9:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Lawley, AL | Trees and power lines were blown down on US 82 in Lawley. |
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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 110321 SVRBHM ALC007-105-110345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 920 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... EASTERN PERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 945 PM CST. * AT 920 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NORTHEASTERN BIBB COUNTY TO EXTREME NORTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTY TO SOUTH CENTRAL PERRY COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE WARNED AREA. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. 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, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 36 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 | 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.