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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 2, 2000Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 4:39 AM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
Apr 2, 2000, 4:39 AM CDT (09:39 UTC)
Expired
Apr 2, 2000, 5:15 AM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2000-04-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2000-04-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 537 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
537 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
851 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 12:47 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar28 min
Apr 2, 12:56 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette34 min
Apr 2, 6:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCoosa, Talladega48 min
Apr 2, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXDallas62 min
Apr 2, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXLowndes65 min
Apr 2, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga64 min
Apr 2, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningBMXMontgomery61 min
Apr 2, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore61 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.