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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 3, 2000Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2000, 11:34 PM CST for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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
Mar 3, 2000, 11:34 PM CST (05:34 UTC)
Expired
Mar 4, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-03-04Temperature 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2000-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
2052 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
288 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.

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 040535
SVRBHM
ALC005-040600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1134 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST.

* AT 1134 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...OVER WEST CENTRAL BARBOUR COU;NTY NORTHWEST   
  OF CLAYTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

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, 6:10 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga35 min
Mar 3, 6:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount, Cullman40 min
Mar 3, 6:25 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXMontgomery35 min
Mar 3, 6:29 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXJefferson, Walker46 min
Mar 3, 6:43 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga17 min
Mar 3, 6:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore51 min
Mar 3, 6:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery47 min
Mar 3, 7:02 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXDallas28 min
Mar 3, 11:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour31 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.