Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 2:14 AM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 10, 2000, 2:14 AM CST (08:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 46 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 08:17 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 2:40 AM CST | Hail 1 | Cottondale, AL | Pea to quarter size hail fell in Cottondale. |
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, 8.2 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 100816 SVRBHM ALC125-100900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 214 AM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 300 AM CST. * AT 214 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUSCALOOSA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... TUSCALOOSA...NORTHPORT AND DUNCANVILLE. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 35 min |
| Mar 9, 9:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 18 min |
| Mar 10, 1:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 43 min |
| Mar 10, 6:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 8:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Shelby | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 10:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Talladega | 23 min |
| Mar 10, 11:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 11:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 11:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 11:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lawrence | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 28 min |
| Mar 10, 1:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 1:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 38 min |
| Mar 10, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon, Montgomery | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 3:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 39 min |
| Mar 10, 3:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon, Russell | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 3:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene | 29 min |
| Mar 10, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 3:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 48 min |
| Mar 10, 4:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 4:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 49 min |
| Mar 10, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 47 min |
| Mar 10, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale, Tuscaloosa | 26 min |
| Mar 10, 4:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 27 min |
| Mar 10, 4:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 24 min |
| Mar 10, 4:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 49 min |
| Mar 10, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 42 min |
| Mar 10, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 23 min |
| Mar 10, 4:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 36 min |
| Mar 10, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 35 min |
| Mar 10, 4:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 33 min |
| Mar 10, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 31 min |
| Mar 10, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 5:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 42 min |
| Mar 10, 5:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 26 min |
| Mar 10, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 37 min |
| Mar 10, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 5:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 32 min |
| Mar 10, 5:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 40 min |
| Mar 10, 5:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.