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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 3:40 PM CST for Bullock County, Macon County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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
- Feb 13, 2000, 3:40 PM CST (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullock County, AL, Macon County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 3:42 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Fitzpatrick, AL | The third of three tornadoes produced by the same supercell thunderstorm occurred just north of Fitzpatrick. The tornado track was about 1 mile long and 50 yards wide. The tornado crossed CR 7 about 2 miles north of Fitzpatrick. Several trees were uprooted |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBMX 132142 TORBHM ALC011-087-132215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 340 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BULLOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... MACON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 415 PM CST. * AT 340 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TUSKEGEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 415 PM CST... CHESSON...HARDAWAY...TUSKEGEE...DAVISVILLE. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A STURDY BUILDING MOVE TO A PLACEI OF SAFETY...AWAY FROM WINDOWS...IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 41 min |
| Feb 13, 2:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 62 min |
| Feb 13, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock | 28 min |
| Feb 13, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 35 min |
| Feb 13, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 30 min |
| Feb 13, 4:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 64 min |
| Feb 13, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 38 min |
| Feb 13, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 17 min |
| Feb 13, 5:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 57 min |
| Feb 13, 5:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Lauderdale | 64 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.