Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2000, 11:59 PM CST for Barbour 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
- Mar 3, 2000, 11:59 PM CST (05:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2000, 12:30 AM CST
- In force
- 31 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, 6.0 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 040601 SVRBHM ALC005-040630- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1159 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 1230 AM CST. * AT 1159 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...OVER NORTH CENTRAL BARBOUR COUNTY JUST NORTH OF CLAYTON..MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. NNNN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 3, 9:05 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 9:05 PM CST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 905 PM CST FRI MAR 03 2000 CANCELLED SMALL WESTERN PART OF WATCH 66. GREENE...HALE...PERRY...BIBB...AND SUMTER COUNTIES. REST OF WATCH WILL EXPIRE AT 10 PM. .BHM...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 3, 9:07 PM CST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
ALZ030>034-040330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 907 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000 THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELED FOR THE FOLLOWING 5 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL ALABAMA. SUMTER...GREENE...HALE...BIBB...PERRY. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 46 min |
| Mar 3, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 17 min |
| Mar 3, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 51 min |
| Mar 3, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 7:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 28 min |
| Mar 3, 11:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 26 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.