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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 281, NWS Birmingham, AL

June 25, 2000Shelby County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2000, 12:41 PM CDT for Shelby County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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
Jun 25, 2000, 12:41 PM CDT (17:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Shelby County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 14 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 900 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2000-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
900 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1282 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

116 
WUUS54 KBMX 251741
SVRBHM
ALC117-251815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1241 PM CDT SUN JUN 25 2000

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEAST SHELBY COUNTY IN ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 115 PM CDT.

* AT 1241 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER VINCENT...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...VINCENT
  AND HARPERSVILLE.

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

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 1:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson36 min
Jun 25, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb46 min
Jun 25, 1:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson44 min
Jun 25, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby66 min
Jun 25, 1:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa51 min
Jun 25, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby41 min
Jun 25, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun, Talladega39 min
Jun 25, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSt. Clair34 min
Jun 25, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale30 min
Jun 25, 4:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens52 min
Jun 25, 5:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBMXDallas113 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.