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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Birmingham, AL

February 13, 2000Madison County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 7:29 PM CST for Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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, 7:29 PM CST (01:29 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2000, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 13, 7:29 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 75 E	Redstone Aaf, AL	On the Redstone Arsenal, several large buildings just north of the Tennessee River were damaged, at least one severely. A large stand of pine trees was 70 percent destroyed. Either this downburst proceeded east-northeast or a second downburst occurred east-n
Feb 13, 7:42 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Huntsville, AL	Two tractor trailers were blown over on US 72 east of Huntsville.
Feb 13, 7:49 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Huntsville, AL	Dime size hail fell just west of Huntsville.

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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 523 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 558 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBMX 140131
TORBHM
ALC089-140200-

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

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL MADISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  THIS INCLUDES...HUNTSVILLE...MADISON...REDSTONE ARSENAL...

* UNTIL 800 PM CST.

* AT 729 PM CST A SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 1 MILE
  EAST OF I-65...ON I-565....MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

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 xTHE 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, 6:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence, Limestone, Morgan	45 min
Feb 13, 6:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette, Lamar, Marion, Pickens	52 min
Feb 13, 6:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker, Winston	52 min
Feb 13, 6:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	52 min
Feb 13, 6:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Madison	42 min
Feb 13, 7:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pickens, Sumter	28 min
Feb 13, 7:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman, Morgan	41 min
Feb 13, 7:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Limestone	15 min
Feb 13, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	25 min
Feb 13, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	36 min
Feb 13, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Marshall	45 min
Feb 13, 7:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	40 min
Feb 13, 7:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	26 min
Feb 13, 7:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jackson, Marshall	40 min
Feb 13, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	32 min
Feb 13, 7:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	32 min
Feb 13, 7:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	32 min
Feb 13, 8:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	42 min
Feb 13, 8:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Shelby	44 min
Feb 13, 8:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lowndes	38 min
Feb 13, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	35 min
Feb 13, 8:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, DeKalb	35 min
Feb 13, 8:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, St. Clair, Talladega	46 min
Feb 13, 9:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	28 min
Feb 13, 9:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon	33 min
Feb 13, 9:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	26 min
Feb 13, 9:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Cleburne	47 min
Feb 13, 9:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	43 min
Feb 13, 10:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	40 min
Feb 13, 10:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	32 min
Feb 13, 10:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	42 min
Feb 13, 10:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour	62 min
Feb 13, 10:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	49 min
Feb 13, 11:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Talladega	43 min
Feb 13, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Randolph	50 min
Feb 13, 11:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	35 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.