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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 303, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2000, 5:39 PM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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 15, 2000, 5:39 PM CDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2000, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 6:08 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Brookwood, AL | A few trees and power lines were blown down in the Brookwood area. Pea size hail was also reported with this storm. |
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 1145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1315 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
493 WUUS54 KBMX 152239 SVRBHM ALC125-152315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 539 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT. * AT 539 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTH OF BROOKWOOD...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BROOKWOOD. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE ALL POSSIBLE. STAY INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 49 min |
| Jul 15, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 45 min |
| Jul 15, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 51 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.