Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 12, 2000, 3:35 AM CST for Lauderdale County, Lawrence County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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
- Feb 12, 2000, 3:35 AM CST (09:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2000, 4:00 AM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 120936 SVRBHM ALC077-079-121000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 335 AM CST SAT FEB 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... NORTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 400 AM CST. * AT 335 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOWN CREEK...OR ABOUT OVER LEIGHTON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 400 AM CST... KILLEN AND TOWN CREEK... COURTLAND AND NORTH COURTLAND... ANDERSON AND ROGERSVILLE... 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, 3:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert | 33 min |
| Feb 12, 3:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.