Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 7:58 PM CST for Etowah County, St. Clair County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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, 7:58 PM CST (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Etowah County, AL, St. Clair County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 8:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Rockledge, AL | Numerous trees were blown down in northwest Etowah County. Several homes received major damage and a few were demolished. A few mobile homes were also damaged. |
| Feb 13, 8:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Countywide, AL | Several trees were blown down throughout the county. Many of the fallen trees landed on buildings causing major damage. A few mobile homes were also damaged by falling trees. A 56 mph wind gust was recorded by the EMA in Gadsden at 821 PM. |
| Feb 13, 8:29 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Springville, AL | Dime size hail was reported in Springville. |
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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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 140201 SVRBHM ALC049-055-115-140230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 758 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... DEKALB COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA... ETOWAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 830 PM CST. * AT 758 PM CST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF DEKALB...ETOWAH...AND ST. CLAIR COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AROUND 45 MPH. ALL CITIES WITHIN TUSCALOOSA WILL BE AFFECT BY THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER NOW.
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, 7:35 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 | 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.