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Tornado Warning 128, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 9, 2000Dallas County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2000, 2:52 AM CST for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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 9, 2000, 2:52 AM CST (08:52 UTC)
Expired: Nov 9, 2000, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Dallas County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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 9, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 89 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 090852
TORBHM

ALC047-090930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
252 AM CST THU NOV 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DALLAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 330 AM CST

* AT 252 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO APPROACHING SELMA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...SELMONT-WEST
SELMONT AND SELMA.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. TAKE COVER NOW. IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3238 8724 3225 8709 3244 8685 3266 8695

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, 11:30 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, 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.