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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 7:58 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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, 7:58 PM CST (01:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 8:11 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 80 E | Tuscaloosa, AL | High voltage power lines were blown down on CR 88 northeast of Tuscaloosa. |
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 779 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 446 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 561 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 15.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBMX 140200 TORBHM ALC125-140230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 758 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A... * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES...HOLT...NORTHPORT...TUSCALOOSA... * UNTIL 8:30 PM CST. * AT 7:58 PM CST...TUSCALOOSA COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORTED A TORNADO IN THE CITY OF TUSCALOOSA. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THE STORM THROUGH 830 PM CST... NORTHPORT... TUSCALOOSA... HOLT... BROOKWOOD... 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, 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, 7:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 31 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, 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 |
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.