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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 180, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2000, 6:06 PM CST for Chambers County, Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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
- Mar 19, 2000, 6:06 PM CST (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chambers County, AL, Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 632 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 200007 SVRBHM ALC017-081-200030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 606 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHAMBERS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA... LEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 630 PM CST. * AT 606 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EXTREME EASTERN TALLAPOOSA AND MACON COUNTIES...EXTENDING FROM NEAR NEW SITE TO EAST OF TUSKEGEE. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT MOST OF CHAMBERS AND WESTERN LEE COUNTY THROUGH 630 PM." STRONG DAMAGING WIND IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW! FIND SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, 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 this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 19, 2:56 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 19, 2:56 PM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 256 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2000 SURFACE LOW INTO WEST AL THIS AFTERNOON WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT. TORNADO WATCH WILL CONTINUE IN EFFECT S PART OF THE AREA IN WARM SECTOR UNTIL 7 PM. SOME FLOODING IN PROGRESS... BUT RAINS SHOULD DIMINISH THIS EVENING AND END LATER TONIGHT AS THE UPPER TROF MOVES RAPIDLY ACROSS THE AREA. DECREASING CLOUDS ON MONDAY AS THE STO<RM SYSTEM MOVES OFF TO THE NE. WARMER ON TUESDAY. HSV EU 045/061 042/071 046 369100 BHM BU 047/064 042/076 048 369-00 MGM BU 050/068 043/078 053 369000= .BHM...NONE. NNNN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 2:10 PM CST, 3 hours 56 minutes before
ALZ001>038-040>050-192230- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 210 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2000 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A SURFACE COLD FRONT...CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI...CONTINUES TO ADVANCE TOWARDS ALABAMA THIS EVENING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD ACROSS MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE ENCOUNTERED OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA. SOME STORMS COULD CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND EVEN AN ISOLATED TORNADO. BECAUSE OF THIS...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR THE SOUTHERN HALF OF ALABAMA. RAINFALL COULD BE ON THE HEAVY SIDE IN THE STRONGER SHOWERS. WITH RAINFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES POSSIBLE...SOME AREAS COULD EXPERIENCE MINOR FLOODING OF AREA ROADWAYS AND LOW-LYING AREAS. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL COULD BE NECESSARY THIS EVENING OVER SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF ALABAMA. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 3:17 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before
ALZ030>032-192200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 317 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2000 TORNADO WATCH 105 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR SUMTER, GREENE, AND HALE COUNTIES. NNNN
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 5:45 PM CST, 21 minutes before
ALZ033-ALZ040>042-200100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 545 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2000 TORNADO WATCH 105 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR PERRY, DALLAS, AUTAUGA, AND LOWNDES COUNTIES. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 6:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Macon, Russell | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 7:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Lee, Russell | 47 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.