Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 6:38 PM CST for Walker County, Winston County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 min. 4 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, 6:38 PM CST (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:48 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Double Spgs, AL | |
| Feb 13, 6:48 PM CST | Hail 2.75 | Double Spgs, AL | |
| Feb 13, 6:49 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Countywide, AL | Several trees and power lines were blown down in many different locations throughout the county, which include Nauvoo, Carbon Hill, Blackwater, Jasper, Cordova, and Parrish. Two separate trees fell onto two vehicles causing major damage. One tree fell onto a |
| Feb 13, 7:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Double Spgs, AL | Several trees were blown down and a chicken house sustained damage near US 278 about 1 mile west of CR 63. |
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, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 779 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 446 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 561 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 15.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBMX 140039 SVRBHM ALC057-075-093-107-125-127-133-140130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 638 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... EASTERN MARION COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... WINSTON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... LAMAR COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... PICKENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... WESTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 7:30 PM CST. * AT 6:38 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG FROM 4 MILES NORTH OF HALEYVILLE TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF GUIN TO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARROLLTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 6:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan | 45 min |
| Feb 13, 6:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens | 52 min |
| Feb 13, 6:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 52 min |
| Feb 13, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 42 min |
| Feb 13, 7:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens, Sumter | 28 min |
| Feb 13, 7:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Morgan | 41 min |
| Feb 13, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 15 min |
| Feb 13, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 25 min |
| Feb 13, 7:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Feb 13, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 31 min |
| Feb 13, 7:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Marshall | 45 min |
| Feb 13, 7:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 40 min |
| Feb 13, 7:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 26 min |
| Feb 13, 7:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson, Marshall | 40 min |
| Feb 13, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 7:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 8:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Feb 13, 8:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Shelby | 44 min |
| Feb 13, 8:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 38 min |
| Feb 13, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 8:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, DeKalb | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 8:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega | 46 min |
| Feb 13, 9:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 28 min |
| Feb 13, 9:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 33 min |
| Feb 13, 9:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 26 min |
| Feb 13, 9:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 47 min |
| Feb 13, 9:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 43 min |
| Feb 13, 10:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 40 min |
| Feb 13, 10:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pike | 32 min |
| Feb 13, 10:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 42 min |
| Feb 13, 10:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 62 min |
| Feb 13, 10:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 49 min |
| Feb 13, 11:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Talladega | 43 min |
| Feb 13, 11:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 50 min |
| Feb 13, 11:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 35 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.