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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 3, 2000Hale County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2000, 4:31 PM CST for Hale County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min. 2 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
Mar 3, 2000, 4:31 PM CST (22:31 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Hale County, AL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 3, 4:40 PM CSTHail 1Gallion, AL
Mar 3, 4:47 PM CSTHail 0.75Newbern, AL

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 nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2000-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2419 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

005 
WUUS54 KBMX 032231
SVRBHM
ALC065-032300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
431 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A...

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  HALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 500 PM CST.

* AT 431 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREENSBORO...MOVING EAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...NEWBERN
  AND GREENSBORO.

TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY
INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

NNNN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 4:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry52 min
Mar 3, 4:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar32 min
Mar 3, 5:11 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXLamar34 min
Mar 3, 5:16 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXFayette44 min
Mar 3, 5:31 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Dallas44 min
Mar 3, 5:31 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXPerry44 min
Mar 3, 5:36 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXLowndes24 min
Mar 3, 5:46 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXMontgomery44 min
Mar 3, 5:51 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXWalker39 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.