Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 367, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2000, 6:22 PM CDT for Randolph County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 min. 3 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, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2000, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Wedowee, AL | A boat repair shop near Fosters Crossroads had one of its metal buildings destroyed. One wood frame building had minor damage. A few homes had shingles blown off their roofs near CR 82 and CR 7. Several trees and power lines were blown down. |
| Jul 23, 6:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Wedowee, AL | Dime size hail was reported near Corinth in northwest Randolph County. There were numerous reports that the storm was rotating. |
| Jul 23, 7:05 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Wedowee, AL | Golf ball size hail fell just north of Wedowee along old US 431. |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 253 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1280 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 232323 SVRBHM ALC111-240000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 622 PM CDT SUN JUL 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN ALABAMA... * UNTIL 700 PM CDT. * AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEDOWEE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...WOODLAND AND WEDOWEE. 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.
| 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, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne | 34 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.