Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2000, 11:19 PM CST for Clay County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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
- Jan 9, 2000, 11:19 PM CST (05:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2000, 12:05 AM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clay County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 86 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
- 395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 100519 SVRBHM ALC027-100605- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1119 PM CST SUN JAN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY...IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 1205 AM CST. * AT 1117 PM CST...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING RAPIDLY EASTWARD FROM NEAR TALLADEGA TO SYLACAUGA. THIS LINE WILL MOVE ACROSS ALL OF CLAY COUNTY BY MIDNIGHT. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING...AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN...AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE...OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMEMBER... A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS... AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 40 min |
| Jan 9, 10:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 34 min |
| Jan 9, 10:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Jan 9, 10:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 47 min |
| Jan 9, 11:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 47 min |
| Jan 9, 11:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 50 min |
| Jan 9, 11:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 46 min |
| Jan 9, 11:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 49 min |
| Jan 9, 11:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 50 min |
| Jan 10, 2:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 49 min |
| Jan 10, 2:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 62 min |
| Jan 10, 2:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Lee, Russell | 61 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.