Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:32 PM CST for Marion County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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
- Jan 3, 2000, 5:32 PM CST (23:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:34 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hackleburg, AL | Trees were blown down near Hodges Dam along the Marion-Franklin county line. |
| Jan 3, 5:45 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bear Creek, AL | Trees were blown down 4 miles east of Bear Creek on CR 79. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBHM 032332 TORBHM ALC093-040000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 532 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARION COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES...HAMILTON...WINFIELD... * UNTIL 600 PM CST. * AT 532 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 9 MILES NORTH OF HAMILTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Marion | 38 min |
| Jan 3, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 38 min |
| Jan 3, 5:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin | 27 min |
| Jan 3, 5:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 39 min |
| Jan 3, 5:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 50 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.