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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 3:32 PM CST for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 3:32 PM CST (21:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bullock County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 3:32 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Mitchell, AL | |
| Feb 13, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Fitzpatrick, AL | The third of three tornadoes produced by the same supercell thunderstorm occurred just north of Fitzpatrick. The tornado track was about 1 mile long and 50 yards wide. The tornado crossed CR 7 about 2 miles north of Fitzpatrick. Several trees were uprooted |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 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 132133 SVRBHM ALC011-132200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 332 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BULLOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 400 PM CST. * AT 332 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER EXTREME EAST CENTRAL MONTGOMERY COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...G4O INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 41 min |
| Feb 13, 2:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 62 min |
| Feb 13, 3:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 4:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 64 min |
| Feb 13, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 38 min |
| Feb 13, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 17 min |
| Feb 13, 5:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 57 min |
| Feb 13, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 64 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.