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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2000, 6:43 PM CST for Autauga County, Alabama. It was in force for 17 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, 6:43 PM CST (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2000, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Autauga 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, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 73 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 040044 TORBHM ALC001-040100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 643 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... AUTAUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 700 PM CST. * AT 643 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PRATTVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATI|ONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... PRATTVILLE. 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, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 46 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.