Severe Thunderstorm Warning 410, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Aug 10, 2000, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)

Expired

Aug 10, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

Counties Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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.

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.

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 102143
SVRBHM
ALC077-079-083-102245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
443 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LIMESTONE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 438 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATHENS TO 6
  MILES NORTHWEST OF UNDERWOOD-PETERSVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...
MOULTON AND FLORENCE

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

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 10, 2:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
256 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000

FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS PORTIONS OF TN WILL MOVE SEWD OVERNIGHT AND
REACH INTO CENTRAL SECTIONS BY 12Z ON FRIDAY.  VORT MAX WILL MOVE
THROUGH THE BASE OF UPPER TROF ACROSS THE NORTHERN SECTIONS ON
FRIDAY AND THEN SHIFT SE OF THE AREA LATER IN THE DAY.  MODELS SHOW
MUCH DRIER AIR SPREADING INTO THE AREA FRI AFTN THROUGH SATURDAY.

LATEST SATELLITE LOOPS AND RADAR DATA SHOW SCT TSTMS DEVELOPING
RAPIDLY ACROSS PORTIONS OF SRN TN...WILL GO WITH SCT POPS ACROSS
MUCH OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT AS FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA.  WILL ALSO
MENTION POSSIBLE SVR TSTMS ACROSS THE EXTREME N.

WITH DRIER AIR MOVING INTO THE AREA FRI NITE AND SAT...ONLY SMALL
POPS WILL BE CARRIED ACROSS THE EXTREME S.

USED A BLEND OF THE FWC/FAN TEMPS.

HSV 70/92/64/92 5100   BHM 70/92/65/92 3100   MGM 73/94/68/93 32-1

.BHM...NONE.

In the hours before

ALZ001>038-040>050-110000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
130 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP...ACROSS NORTH AND
CENTRAL ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. LINGERING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES ACROSS
CENTRAL ALABAMA...WILL ACT AS A FOCUS FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT.
A FEW OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...DURING THE AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING HOURS...BUT NO ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED.
LARGE HAIL...AND STRAIGHTLINE WINDS WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT...
ASSOCIATED WITH ANY SEVERE WEATHER WHICH DEVELOPS.

STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNBEL...SHOULD REMAIN
ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND MONITOR NOAA
WEATHER RADIO OR...LOCAL TV AND RADIO...FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS LATER
TODAY.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.