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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 3, 2000Walker County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2000, 5:51 PM CST for Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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
Mar 3, 2000, 5:51 PM CST (23:51 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Walker County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 2000-03-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 032352
TORBHM
ALC127-040030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
551 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 630 PM CST.

* AT 551 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF OAKMAN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... 
  PARRISH...OAKMAN AND CORDOVA.

SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET...INTERIOR
BATHROOM...OR HALLWAY. CLOSE ALL DOORS. USE BLANKETS...QUILTS...OR
PILLOWS TO COVER YOURSELF.@

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 4:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale29 min
Mar 3, 4:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry52 min
Mar 3, 4:58 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLamar32 min
Mar 3, 5:11 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXLamar34 min
Mar 3, 5:16 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXFayette44 min
Mar 3, 5:31 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXAutauga, Dallas44 min
Mar 3, 5:31 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXPerry44 min
Mar 3, 5:36 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXLowndes24 min
Mar 3, 5:46 PM CSTTornado WarningBMXMontgomery44 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.