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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 13, 2000Bullock County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 5:13 PM CST for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 17 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 13, 2000, 5:13 PM CST (23:13 UTC)
Expired
Feb 13, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Bullock County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 13, 2:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2000-02-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2000-02-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 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 132316
TORBHM
ALC011-132330-

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

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN BULLOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 530 PM CST.

* AT 513 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...OVER CENTRAL 
BULLOCK COUNTY...JUST NORTHEAST OF UNION SPRINGS.  THIS STORM WAS 
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS TORNADO WARNING FOR BULLOCK COUNTY.

EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. IN A STURDY 
BUILDING MOVE TO A PLACE OF S4AFETY...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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 13, 2:19 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXLowndes41 min
Feb 13, 2:43 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXMontgomery62 min
Feb 13, 3:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock28 min
Feb 13, 3:40 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXBullock, Macon35 min
Feb 13, 4:10 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXPike35 min
Feb 13, 4:15 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXMacon30 min
Feb 13, 4:26 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXLee64 min
Feb 13, 4:37 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXBullock38 min
Feb 13, 5:18 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXRussell57 min
Feb 13, 5:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert, Lauderdale64 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.