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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 3, 2000Franklin County, Marion County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 6:02 PM CST for Franklin County, Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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
Jan 3, 2000, 6:02 PM CST (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, AL, Marion County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 3, 5:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 286 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1052 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
286 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
383 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 6:37 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert, Franklin23 min
Jan 3, 6:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale, Tuscaloosa31 min
Jan 3, 6:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson, Madison37 min
Jan 3, 9:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone32 min
Jan 3, 9:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison46 min
Jan 3, 10:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa48 min
Jan 3, 11:00 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWalker50 min
Jan 3, 11:56 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson34 min
Jan 4, 12:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson46 min
Jan 4, 12:23 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb32 min
Jan 4, 12:41 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry49 min
Jan 4, 1:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb35 min
Jan 4, 1:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTalladega31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.