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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 3, 2000Dallas County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2000, 7:02 PM CST for Dallas County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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, 7:02 PM CST (01:02 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2000, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Dallas 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, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 040103
TORBHM
ALC047-040130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DALLAS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 730 PM CST.

* AT 702 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
   DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR THE ALABAMA RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 30 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, 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, 6:43 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, 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.