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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 13, 2000Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 6:38 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 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: 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

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 13, 7:40 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Tuscaloosa, AL	Dime size hail was reported in Tuscaloosa.

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 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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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	Walker, Winston	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.