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Tornado Warning 109, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 8:00 PM CST for Jefferson County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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
- Nov 8, 2000, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2000, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 8:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bessemer, AL | Several trees were blown down in and around Bessemer. |
| Nov 8, 8:25 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Homewood, AL | Several trees were knocked down in and around Homewood. |
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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 090201 TORBHM ALC073-090245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 800 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 845 PM CST * AT 758 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER BESSEMER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...VESTAVIA HILLS... TRUSSVILLE...TARRANT...PLEASANT GROVE...PINSON...CLAY...CHALKVILLE... MOUNTAIN BROOK...MINOR...MIDFIELD...LIPSCOMB...IRONDALE...HUEYTOWN... HOOVER...HOMEWOOD...GARDENDALE...FULTONDALE...FORESTDALE... FAIRFIELD...CENTER POINT...CAHABA HEIGHTS...BRIGHTON...BIRMINGHAM AND BESSEMER. NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. TAKE COVER NOW. IF YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE. LAT...LON 3339 8709 3327 8692F 3368 8644 3385 8667
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 9:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 44 min |
| Nov 8, 9:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 46 min |
| Nov 8, 9:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 45 min |
| Nov 8, 9:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 41 min |
| Nov 8, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Colbert, Franklin, Lawrence | 45 min |
| Nov 8, 10:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 28 min |
| Nov 8, 10:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Hale, Tuscaloosa | 53 min |
| Nov 8, 10:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 36 min |
| Nov 8, 10:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 10:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison, Morgan | 40 min |
| Nov 8, 10:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 32 min |
| Nov 8, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 30 min |
| Nov 8, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 31 min |
| Nov 8, 11:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 11:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Perry | 45 min |
| Nov 8, 11:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 38 min |
| Nov 8, 11:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 23 min |
| Nov 8, 11:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 23 min |
| Nov 8, 11:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Nov 8, 11:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 32 min |
| Nov 9, 12:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 43 min |
| Nov 9, 12:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 33 min |
| Nov 9, 12:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 30 min |
| Nov 9, 1:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 29 min |
| Nov 9, 1:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 29 min |
| Nov 9, 1:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 34 min |
| Nov 9, 1:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 48 min |
| Nov 9, 2:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 37 min |
| Nov 9, 2:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 38 min |
| Nov 9, 5:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Nov 9, 8:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Russell | 46 min |
| Nov 9, 8:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 34 min |
| Nov 9, 12:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jackson | 40 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.