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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 25, 2000Marion County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2000, 8:04 PM CDT for Marion 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, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Marion County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 148 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2105 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.7

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The text

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

307 
WUUS54 KBMX 260106
SVRBHM
ALC093-260130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
804 PM CDT THU MAY 25 2000

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MARION COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT.

* AT 804 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAMILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WESTON
  AND HAMILTON.

LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THE STORM MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa36 min
May 25, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarion31 min
May 25, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Sumter35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.