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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT for Colbert County, Franklin County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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 27, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Colbert County, AL, Franklin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 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 280002 SVRBHM ALC033-059-280030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 700 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLBERT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT. * AT 700 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS COLBERT AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... RUSSELLVILLE AND LITTLEVILLE. STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 53 min |
| Apr 27, 7:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Marion | 64 min |
| Apr 27, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, DeKalb | 25 min |
| Apr 27, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 39 min |
| Apr 27, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 57 min |
| Apr 27, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 46 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.