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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 357, NWS Birmingham, AL

July 20, 2000Coosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2000, 7:09 PM CDT for Coosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 21 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
Jul 20, 2000, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2000, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Coosa County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 170 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 532 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 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
532 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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.

559 
WUUS54 KBMX 210009
SVRBHM
ALC037-210030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
709 PM CDT THU JUL 20 2000

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COOSA COUNTY IN ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 730 PM CDT.

* AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 3 MILES NORTH OF
  GOODWATER TO 21 MILES SOUTH OF GOODWATER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
  THIS EXTENDS A PREVIOUS WARNING.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
  GOODWATER.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay40 min
Jul 20, 7:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCalhoun22 min
Jul 20, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers, Randolph62 min
Jul 20, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery18 min
Jul 20, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTallapoosa31 min
Jul 20, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock, Pike52 min
Jul 20, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee45 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.