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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 6:53 PM CST for Jackson County, Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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, 6:53 PM CST (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, AL, Madison 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 517 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 723 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 KBMX 040054 SVRBHM ALC071-089-040130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 653 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 730 PM CST. * AT 653 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 4 MILES EAST OF HUNTSVILLE...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. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPR6OACHES 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 6:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 31 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.