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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 10, 2000Blount County, Cullman County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 3:47 AM CST for Blount County, Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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 10, 2000, 3:47 AM CST (09:47 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 4:30 AM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Blount County, AL, Cullman County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:49 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, 3:50 AM CST	Hail 0.75	Bremen, AL
Mar 10, 4:05 AM CST	Hail 1	Hanceville, 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

574 
WUUS54 KBMX 100947
SVRBHM
ALC009-043-101030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
347 AM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BLOUNT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  CULLMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 430 AM CST.

* AT 347 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLONY...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...HOLLY
  POND...HANCEVILLE...GOOD HOPE...GARDEN CITY...COLONY AND
  BLOUNTSVILLE.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES.

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 10, 3:20 AM CST, 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 3:20 AM CST, 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
320 AM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

MODELS ARE IN EXCELLENT AGREEMENT FOR THE NEXT 36HRS.  SYNOPTICALLY
THINGS LOOK VERY MUCH LIKE EXPECTED...EXCEPT THE FRONT STALLED A
BIT NORTH OF WHERE I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE.  THIS WILL MOVE THE MAIN
CONCERN THREAT AREA TODAY...THE TWO SHORT WAVES THAT FORM ON THE
STALLED FRONT...A BIT NORTH.

THERE SEEMS TO BE A THREE PART FORECAST CONCERN FOR THE NEXT 36HRS.
THE TWO IMPULSES THAT FORM TODAY...AND THE FRONT/SQUALL LINE ON
FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY.  BASED ON TIME HEIGHTS AND FORECAST
SOUNDINGS...IT APPEARS THE FIRST IMPULSE WILL MAINLY AFFECT NW AL
THIS AFTERNOON.  THE SECOND IMPULSE WILL AFFECT CENTRAL AL THIS THIS
AFTERNOON AD THIS EVENING.

THE FRONT/SQUALL LINE MOVES THROUGH THE STATE FRIDAY NIGHT INTO
SATURDAY.  GREATEST CONCERN FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE NORTHWESTERN
THIRD OF STATE DURING OVERNIGHT HOURS.

S

PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...SUBJECT TO CHANGE.  FOR COORDINATION PURPOSES
ONLY.  FCSTR 80

HSV ET 069/055 058/035 054 4862
BHM ET 074/058 062/035 058 5882
MGM ET 079/059 067/040 061 5561

.BHM...NONE.

80

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 10, 2:51 AM CST, 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM,AL
251 AM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

TIME(CST)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0240 AM    COTTONDALE                AL   1.00 INCH HAIL
03/10/00   TUSCALOOSA                     PEA TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL

DES

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, 2:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	46 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

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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.