Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 100, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2000, 7:11 PM CDT for Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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
- Apr 27, 2000, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2000, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cullman County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | West Pt, AL | Nickel size hail was reported near West Point. Dime size hail occurred on Interstate 65 near Lacon Mountain. |
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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 280012 TORBHM ALC043-280100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 711 PM CDT THU APR 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CULLMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT. * AT 711 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WEST POINT...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WEST POINT...SOUTH VINEMONT...HOLLY POND...FAIRVIEW AND BAILEYTON. THIS WARNING IS AN UPGRADE OF THE PREVIOUS WARNING. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman | 53 min |
| Apr 27, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Marion | 64 min |
| Apr 27, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 7:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 51 min |
| Apr 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 47 min |
| Apr 27, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, DeKalb | 25 min |
| Apr 27, 8:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 39 min |
| Apr 27, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 57 min |
| Apr 27, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 44 min |
| Apr 27, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 46 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.