Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 12, 2000, 3:12 AM CST for Colbert County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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
- Feb 12, 2000, 3:12 AM CST (09:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2000, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Colbert County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 3:30 AM CST | Hail 1 | Tuscumbia, AL | Dime to quarter size hail fell in Tuscumbia. |
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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBMX 120913 SVRBHM ALC033-120945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 312 AM CST SAT FEB 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COLBERT COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 345 AM CST. * AT 312 AM CST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL NEAR CHEROKEE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 345 AM CST... CHEROKEE... LITTLEVILLE... MUSCLE SHOALS AND SHEFFIELD... LEIGHTON... VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 3:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 25 min |
| Feb 12, 3:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence | 25 min |
| Feb 12, 3:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 34 min |
| Feb 12, 3:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 36 min |
| Feb 12, 4:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 27 min |
| Feb 12, 4:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 35 min |
| Feb 12, 4:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 59 min |
| Feb 12, 4:43 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 32 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.