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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 10, 2000Jefferson County, Shelby County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 10, 2000, 8:53 AM CST for Jefferson County, Shelby County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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 10, 2000, 8:53 AM CST (14:53 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 9:30 AM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Jefferson County, AL, Shelby County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:55 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 25 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 101453
SVRBHM
ALC073-117-101530-

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

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

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  SHELBY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 930 AM CST.

* AT 853 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF BESSEMER...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...VESTAVIA
  HILLS...PELHAM...MIDFIELD...MEADOWBROOK...LIPSCOMB...LAKE PURDY...
  INVERNESS...HUEYTOWN...HOOVER...HOMEWOOD...HELENA...CHELSEA...
  CAHABA HEIGHTS...BRIGHTON AND BESSEMER.

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, 2:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	46 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.