Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 183, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2000, 9:21 PM CST for Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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 29, 2000, 9:21 PM CST (03:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2000, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 9:36 PM CST | Hail 1 | Marion, AL | One inch diameter size hail fell in Marion. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 267 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 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 300322 SVRBHM ALC105-300345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 921 PM CST WED MAR 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 945 PM CST. * AT 921 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF MARION...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...MARION. 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 29, 11:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 40 min |
| Mar 30, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Pike | 58 min |
| Mar 30, 12:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 1:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 1:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 37 min |
| Mar 30, 2:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 28 min |
| Mar 30, 2:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Mar 30, 3:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 24 min |
| Mar 30, 5:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 5:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 5:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 6:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 27 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.