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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 457, NWS Birmingham, AL

August 10, 2000Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 7:34 PM CDT for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 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 10, 2000, 7:34 PM CDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 10, 8:20 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EFosters, ALA few trees and power lines were knocked down in Fosters and in Ralph.

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 00:00Z, 0.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1662 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 2000-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1662 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1998 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 110035
SVRBHM
ALC125-110130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 734 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF BROOKWOOD
  TO 14 MILES NORTH OF NORTHPORT...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS
  INCLUDE...TUSCALOOSA AND HOLT.

LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCleburne50 min
Aug 10, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas, Lowndes61 min
Aug 10, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTalladega45 min
Aug 10, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay, Randolph61 min
Aug 10, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton, Coosa63 min
Aug 10, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb63 min
Aug 10, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga30 min
Aug 10, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby, Talladega35 min
Aug 10, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers, Tallapoosa65 min
Aug 10, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore56 min
Aug 10, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry62 min
Aug 10, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRandolph38 min
Aug 10, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton35 min
Aug 10, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale61 min
Aug 10, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXAutauga56 min
Aug 10, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore67 min
Aug 10, 8:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTallapoosa37 min
Aug 10, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChambers36 min
Aug 10, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry47 min
Aug 10, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee57 min
Aug 10, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Pickens, Sumter40 min
Aug 10, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene, Sumter31 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.