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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 4:19 PM CDT for Talladega County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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
- May 25, 2000, 4:19 PM CDT (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2000, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Talladega County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 61 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
- 2082 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
571 WUUS54 KBMX 252120 SVRBHM ALC121-252145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 419 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN TALLADEGA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 445 PM CDT. * AT 419 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN TALLADEGA COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 25, 2:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 247 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000 COLD FRONT NOW SINKING SOUTH TO NEAR A FORT PAYNE-CULLMAN-HAMILTON LINE. STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ALONG BOUNDARY. VORTICITY MAX OVER CNTRL TN IS AIDING LIFT AS IT MOVES EAST. MODELS SHOW FRONT TO DRIFT TO NEAR A COLUMBUS MS-BIRMINGHAM-ANNISTON LINE OVERNIGHT BEFORE MOVING NORTH OF AREA ON FRIDAY. ANOTHER VORT MAX PROGGED TO APPROACH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER THIS EVENING SO MORE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT NEAR BOUNDARY. RAIN CHANCES SHOULD TEMPORARILY DECREASE FOR AREA FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BEFORE ANOTHER FRONT PUSHES THROUGH AREA SATURDAY NIGHT AND EARLY SUNDAY. SOUTH OF BIRMINGHAM CHANCES OF RAIN WILL REMAIN SMALL DUE TO CAP ALOFT AND BUILDING RIDGE...UNTIL FRONTAL PASSAGE SUNDAY MORNING. EXTENDED LOOKS NICE AFTER FRONT PASSES. A LITTLE COOLER AND DRIER FOR MON AND TUE. HSV BB 066/088 068/090 065 67531 BHM BB 068/090 068/091 066 67531 MGM BB 069/093 070/094 070 67210= .BHM...NONE. NNNN
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 25, 2:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
ALZ001>038-040>050-252115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 207 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A NEARLY STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED NEAR THIS BOUNDARY...AND ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY BE SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. THE FRONT...AND THUNDERSTORMS...ARE EXPECTED TO DRIFT SLOWLY SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 27 min |
| May 25, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 26 min |
| May 25, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Tuscaloosa | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.