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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 264, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 21, 2000Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2000, 8:38 PM CDT for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 21, 2000, 8:38 PM CDT (01:38 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Lee County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 2000-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 552 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
552 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
795 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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

505 
WUUS54 KBMX 220139
SVRBHM
ALC081-220230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
838 PM CDT SUN MAY 21 2000

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT.

* AT 838 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTHWEST
  OF LOACHAPOKA TO 24 MILES WEST OF LOACHAPOKA...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  LOACHAPOKA....ROXANA...AUBURN...AND OPELIKA.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW FIND
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES.

NNNN

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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.