Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 490, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2000, 2:07 PM CDT for Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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
- Aug 27, 2000, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2000, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Russell County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 271907 SVRBHM ALC113-271945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 207 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 204 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HURTSBORO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 12 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...RUTHERFORD AND HOOKS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE ALL POSSIBLE. STAY INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery, Pike | 58 min |
| Aug 27, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 37 min |
| Aug 27, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour, Bullock | 56 min |
| Aug 27, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 36 min |
| Aug 27, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 27 min |
| Aug 27, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.