Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 294, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2000, 5:08 PM CDT for Jackson County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2000, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 5:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bridgeport, AL | Power lines were blown down near Bridgeport. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 1142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
957 WUUS54 KBMX 062209 SVRBHM ALC071-062315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 508 PM CDT THU JUL 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT. * AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 24 MILES NORTH OF SKYLINE TO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF BRIDGEPORT...MOVING SOUTH AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... WOODVILLE...STEVENSON...SKYLINE...SECTION...SCOTTSBORO...PISGAH... PAINT ROCK...HOLLYWOOD...DUTTON AND BRIDGEPORT. STRONG DAMAGING WIND IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.