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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 3, 2000Sumter County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 3, 2000, 5:55 PM CST for Sumter County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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: Jan 3, 2000, 5:55 PM CST (23:55 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Sumter County, AL

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 3, 5:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 224 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 032356
TORBHM
ALC119-040045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
555 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SUMTER COUNTY... IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 645 PM CST.

* AT 555 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A DEVELOPING TORNADO IN A
THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS MOVING OUT OF LAUDERDALE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI.
THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHELAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE LIVINGSTON AREA AND SUMTERVILLE DURING
THE WARNING.

GO TO THE BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin, Marion	38 min
Jan 3, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	38 min
Jan 3, 5:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marion	28 min
Jan 3, 5:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Franklin	27 min
Jan 3, 5:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert, Lauderdale	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.