Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 6:44 PM CST for Hale County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 6:44 PM CST (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hale County, AL, Tuscaloosa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1052 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 040044 SVRBHM ALC065-125-040115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...CORRECTED SPEED OF MOVEMENT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 644 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... SOUTHEASTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 715 PM CST. * AT 644 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNDVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF EUTAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Marion | 28 min |
| Jan 3, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 23 min |
| Jan 3, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson, Madison | 37 min |
| Jan 3, 9:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone | 32 min |
| Jan 3, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 46 min |
| Jan 3, 10:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 48 min |
| Jan 3, 11:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Jan 3, 11:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 34 min |
| Jan 4, 12:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Jan 4, 12:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 32 min |
| Jan 4, 12:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 49 min |
| Jan 4, 1:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 35 min |
| Jan 4, 1:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 31 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.