Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2000, 5:16 PM CST for Fayette County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min. 2 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
- Mar 3, 2000, 5:16 PM CST (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 5:22 PM CST | Hail 1 | Bluff, AL | A storm that moved across Lamar County continued into northern Fayette County. Dime to quarter size hail fell generally north of the city of Fayette. |
| Mar 3, 5:32 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hubertville, AL | A couple of trees were blown down in northern Fayette County near Hubbertville. There were also reports of pea size hail in the northern part of the county. |
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 032316 TORBHM ALC057-040000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 516 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 600 PM CST. * AT 516 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GLEN ALLEN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES...GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 4:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Hale | 29 min |
| Mar 3, 4:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Perry | 52 min |
| Mar 3, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lamar | 34 min |
| Mar 3, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 5:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 5:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 24 min |
| Mar 3, 5:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Mar 3, 5:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 39 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.