Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 7:35 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min. 5 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, 7:35 PM CST (01:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 40 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. |
| Feb 13, 7:50 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Elrod, AL | Dime size hail was reported near the Pickens County and Tuscaloosa County border on US 82. |
| Feb 13, 7:55 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Tuscaloosa Arpt, AL | Dime size hail fell near the Tuscaloosa Airport. |
| Feb 13, 7:56 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Countywide, AL | Trees and power lines were knocked down on US 11 in Tuscaloosa. Several automobiles were pushed to the side of the road by the wind. Numerous trees and power lines were also blown down in many locations throughout the county. There were isolated reports of m |
| Feb 13, 8:11 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 80 E | Tuscaloosa, AL | High voltage power lines were blown down on CR 88 northeast of 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, 1.6 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.
- 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 140137 SVRBHM ALC125-140215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 735 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 815 PM CST. * AT 735 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WITH DAMAGING WINDS...MOVING INTO WESTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AROUND 60 MPH. * ALL CITIES IN THE TUSCALOOSA COUNTY WILL BE AFFECTED BY BY THIS LINE OF STORMS. 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...GO 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, 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, 6:38 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, 7:49 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.