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Tornado Warning 116, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 11:30 PM CST for Bibb County, Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 8, 2000, 11:30 PM CST (05:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bibb County, AL, Perry County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:29 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 11:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 59 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 090528 TORBHM ALC007-105-090615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1130 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA PERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 1215 AM CST * AT 1128 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTH OF BRENT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...WEST BLOCTON... CENTREVILLE AND BRENT. THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE PREVIOUS WARNING. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES...GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET...INTERIOR BATHROOM...OR HALLWAY. CLOSE ALL DOORS. USE BLANKETS...QUILTS...OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOURSELF. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3270 8734 3262 8715 3306 8687 3316@ 8712
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 45 min |
| 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, 11:37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.