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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 9, 2000Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2000, 8:55 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min. 3 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 9, 2000, 8:55 PM CST (02:55 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 2000, 9:30 PM CST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 9, 8:55 PM CSTHail 0.75Tuscaloosa, AL
Mar 9, 9:00 PM CSTHail 1.75Tuscaloosa, AL
Mar 9, 9:25 PM CSTHail 0.75Brookwood, 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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 70 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 00:00Z on 2000-03-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 693 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2000-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 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
693 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 100256
SVRBHM
ALC125-100330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
855 PM CST THU MAR 9 2000

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

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

* UNTIL 930 PM CST.

* AT 855 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF TUSCALOOSA...MOVING     
  NORTHEAST AT 25   MPH.



HAIL OF THREE QUARTER INCH HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU 
ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER.

NNNN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 9:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa18 min
Mar 10, 1:27 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens33 min
Mar 10, 2:14 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa46 min
Mar 10, 3:47 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount, Cullman43 min
Mar 10, 6:39 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens36 min
Mar 10, 8:53 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson, Shelby37 min
Mar 10, 10:07 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXClay, Talladega23 min
Mar 10, 11:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRandolph37 min
Mar 10, 11:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCullman, Winston36 min
Mar 10, 11:54 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMorgan36 min
Mar 10, 11:58 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence32 min
Mar 10, 12:47 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar28 min
Mar 10, 1:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette27 min
Mar 10, 1:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore, Montgomery38 min
Mar 10, 2:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore, Macon, Montgomery37 min
Mar 10, 2:42 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar48 min
Mar 10, 2:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock, Macon32 min
Mar 10, 3:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert, Franklin39 min
Mar 10, 3:27 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock, Macon, Russell48 min
Mar 10, 3:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene29 min
Mar 10, 3:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens35 min
Mar 10, 3:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWalker48 min
Mar 10, 4:03 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXWalker27 min
Mar 10, 4:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar49 min
Mar 10, 4:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell47 min
Mar 10, 4:19 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale, Tuscaloosa26 min
Mar 10, 4:29 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXWalker31 min
Mar 10, 4:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPickens27 min
Mar 10, 4:36 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry24 min
Mar 10, 4:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa49 min
Mar 10, 4:48 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXTuscaloosa42 min
Mar 10, 4:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb, Perry23 min
Mar 10, 4:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWalker, Winston36 min
Mar 10, 4:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFayette35 min
Mar 10, 4:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar33 min
Mar 10, 4:59 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell31 min
Mar 10, 5:13 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXPerry32 min
Mar 10, 5:18 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXFayette, Walker42 min
Mar 10, 5:19 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXTuscaloosa26 min
Mar 10, 5:23 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb37 min
Mar 10, 5:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin32 min
Mar 10, 5:43 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXTuscaloosa32 min
Mar 10, 5:50 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXJefferson40 min
Mar 10, 5:57 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXWalker33 min

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.