Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 366, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 5:56 PM CDT for Calhoun County, Clay County, Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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 23, 2000, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calhoun County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:24 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Delta, AL | |
| Jul 23, 6:24 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Delta, AL |
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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1587 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 232257 SVRBHM ALC015-027-029-232330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 556 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CALHOUN COUNTY IN ALABAMA... NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN ALABAMA... CLEBURNE COUNTY IN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 630 PM CDT. * AT 556 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM FORT MCCLELLAN TO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OXFORD...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...WEST END-COBB TOWN...WEAVER...SA~KS...OXFORD...HOBSON CITY...HEFLIN... FORT MCCLELLAN...EDWARDSVILLE...BLUE MOUNTAIN AND ANNISTON. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 11:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 44 min |
| Jul 23, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 49 min |
| Jul 23, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 38 min |
| Jul 23, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Randolph | 27 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.