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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 19, 2000Barbour County, Lee County, Russell County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2000, 7:13 PM CST for Barbour County, Lee County, Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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, 7:13 PM CST (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Mar 19, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, AL, Lee County, AL, Russell County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-03-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 381 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 200116
SVRBHM
ALC005-081-113-200200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
713 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A...

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN LEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...
  RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 800 PM CST.

* AT 713 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM EASTERN LEE COUNTY SOUTHWARD
  THROUGH WESTERN RUSSELL COUNTY...INTO EXTREME WESTERN BARBOUR COUNTY.  THE
  LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT- THE REMAINDER OF THESE 
  COUNTIES THROUGH 8 PM.  STRONG...POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY
  WITH THESE STORMS.

NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 19, 6:06 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers, Lee24 min
Mar 19, 6:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers, Lee, Macon, Russell49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.