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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 13, 2000Lee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 4:26 PM CST for Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 min. 4 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: Feb 13, 2000, 4:26 PM CST (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Lee County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 13, 4:40 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Opelika, AL	Dime size hail was reported in Beauregard.
Feb 13, 4:44 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Opelika, AL	Nickel size hail was reported near the intersection of CR 166 and CR 146 near Parker Crossroads.
Feb 13, 4:48 PM CST	Hail 1	Opelika, AL	Quarter size hail fell in Opelika.
Feb 13, 4:56 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Salem, AL	Dime size hail fell in Salem.

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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 262 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBMX 132229
TORBHM
ALC081-132330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
426 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A...

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 530 PM CST.

* AT 426 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO IN EXTREME     
NORTHEAST MACON COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 530 PM CST...
  BEUREGARD...GRIFFIN MILL...BLEEKER.

THIS IS A EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY LIFE THREATENING
TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A
STURDY BUILDING MOVE TO A PLACE 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, 3:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon	35 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, 4:37 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.