Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 388, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 1:26 PM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 9, 2000, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Vance, AL | Dime size hail fell near the city of Vance. |
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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 091827 SVRBHM ALC125-091915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 126 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 124 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL TUSCALOOSA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF TUSCALOOSA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH. STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. DIME SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN NORTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY WITH THIS STORM. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 27 min |
| Aug 9, 3:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 54 min |
| Aug 9, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Sumter | 38 min |
| Aug 9, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 24 min |
| Aug 9, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 49 min |
| Aug 9, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 23 min |
| Aug 9, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Russell | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.