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Tornado Warning 135, NWS Birmingham, AL

December 16, 2000Perry County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 12:58 PM CST for Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Dec 16, 2000, 12:58 PM CST (18:58 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Perry County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 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
Dec 16, 1:10 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Uniontown, AL	A few trees were knocked down in Uniontown. One of the trees fell onto a carport and smashed a car.
Dec 16, 1:29 PM CST	Tornado F0	Suttle, AL	A weak tornado briefly touched down just north of the city of Suttle. The tornado was briefly on the ground as it crossed SR 14 between Suttle and Radford, in rural southeast Perry County. Several trees were snapped off or blown over along the short path. T

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
Dec 16, 10:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 93 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: 48 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 466 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 531 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 563 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 161858
TORBHM

ALC105-161945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1258 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 145 PM CST

* AT 1257 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF UNIONTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...UNIONTOWN AND
MARION.

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

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST SATURDAY AFTERNOON
FOR ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CST
SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.

LAT...LON 3249 8762 3234 8752 3259 8706 3282 8729

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 1:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	29 min
Dec 16, 1:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	27 min
Dec 16, 2:03 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb	42 min
Dec 16, 2:30 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	45 min
Dec 16, 3:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	38 min
Dec 16, 3:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	23 min
Dec 16, 11:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert, Lauderdale	45 min
Dec 16, 11:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	28 min
Dec 16, 11:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin	47 min
Dec 16, 11:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Sumter	42 min
Dec 16, 11:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Franklin	26 min
Dec 16, 11:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	51 min
Dec 16, 12:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	29 min
Dec 16, 12:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin	31 min
Dec 16, 12:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Greene	43 min
Dec 16, 12:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lawrence	25 min
Dec 16, 12:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	35 min
Dec 16, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	49 min
Dec 16, 12:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Limestone	32 min
Dec 16, 12:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	50 min
Dec 16, 1:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone, Madison, Morgan	46 min
Dec 16, 1:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	58 min
Dec 16, 1:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	36 min
Dec 16, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	42 min
Dec 16, 1:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	48 min
Dec 16, 1:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	46 min
Dec 16, 2:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	29 min
Dec 16, 2:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	36 min
Dec 16, 2:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Etowah	40 min
Dec 16, 2:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	34 min
Dec 16, 2:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert, Franklin	44 min
Dec 16, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	27 min
Dec 16, 2:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cherokee	40 min
Dec 16, 2:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lauderdale	24 min
Dec 16, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale, Perry	37 min
Dec 16, 2:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	33 min
Dec 16, 3:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion	13 min
Dec 16, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb	35 min
Dec 16, 3:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	29 min
Dec 16, 3:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cleburne	36 min
Dec 16, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	34 min
Dec 16, 3:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	23 min
Dec 16, 3:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	23 min
Dec 16, 3:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	49 min
Dec 16, 3:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman, Morgan	44 min
Dec 16, 3:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	38 min
Dec 16, 4:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Morgan	24 min
Dec 16, 4:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair, Talladega	37 min
Dec 16, 4:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	36 min
Dec 16, 4:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	20 min
Dec 16, 4:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	45 min
Dec 16, 4:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Autauga	42 min
Dec 16, 4:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	41 min
Dec 16, 4:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	49 min
Dec 16, 4:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	31 min
Dec 16, 4:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore	66 min
Dec 16, 5:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	27 min
Dec 16, 5:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	54 min
Dec 16, 5:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jackson	36 min
Dec 16, 5:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Shelby	49 min
Dec 16, 5:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Coosa	23 min
Dec 16, 5:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	51 min
Dec 16, 5:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Montgomery	49 min
Dec 16, 5:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	42 min
Dec 16, 5:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	42 min
Dec 16, 5:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	37 min
Dec 16, 5:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon	37 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.