Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 12, 2000, 4:03 AM CST for Jackson County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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, 4:03 AM CST (10:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2000, 4:30 AM CST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 121004 SVRBHM ALC071-121030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 403 AM CST SAT FEB 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 430 AM CST. * AT 403 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL OVER NORTH CENTRAL MADISON COUNTY...OR ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF HAZEL GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 430 AM CST... 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, 3:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale, Lawrence | 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, 4:25 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.