Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2000, 6:25 PM CST for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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, 6:25 PM CST (00:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KBMX 040026
TORBHM
ALC101-040100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
625 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 700 PM CST.
* AT 625 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF MONTGOMERY...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
MONTGOMERY.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW.
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, 6:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 46 min |
| Mar 3, 6:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 17 min |
| Mar 3, 6:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 51 min |
| Mar 3, 6:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 47 min |
| Mar 3, 7:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Dallas | 28 min |
| Mar 3, 11:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 26 min |
| Mar 3, 11:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Barbour | 31 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.