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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 10, 2000Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2000, 4:48 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 10, 2000, 4:48 PM CST (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Tuscaloosa County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 10, 4:50 PM CST	Hail 1	Tuscaloosa, AL	Three quarter inch to one inch diameter size hail was reported just south of the city of Tuscaloosa.
Mar 10, 5:03 PM CST	Hail 1	Cottondale, AL	Pea to quarter size hail fell in the Cottondale area.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

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 10, 2:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 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 
WFUS54 KBMX 102249
TORBHM
ALC125-102330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
448 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 530 PM CST.

* AT 448 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NORTHWESTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY...MOVING
P  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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 9, 8:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	35 min
Mar 9, 9:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	18 min
Mar 10, 1:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	33 min
Mar 10, 2:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	46 min
Mar 10, 3:47 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Cullman	43 min
Mar 10, 6:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	36 min
Mar 10, 8:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	37 min
Mar 10, 10:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay, Talladega	23 min
Mar 10, 11:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	37 min
Mar 10, 11:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman, Winston	36 min
Mar 10, 11:54 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Morgan	36 min
Mar 10, 11:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	32 min
Mar 10, 12:47 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	28 min
Mar 10, 1:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	27 min
Mar 10, 1:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Montgomery	38 min
Mar 10, 2:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Macon, Montgomery	37 min
Mar 10, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	48 min
Mar 10, 2:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon	32 min
Mar 10, 3:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Colbert, Franklin	39 min
Mar 10, 3:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock, Macon, Russell	48 min
Mar 10, 3:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene	29 min
Mar 10, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	35 min
Mar 10, 3:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	48 min
Mar 10, 4:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	27 min
Mar 10, 4:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	49 min
Mar 10, 4:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	47 min
Mar 10, 4:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale, Tuscaloosa	26 min
Mar 10, 4:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	31 min
Mar 10, 4:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	27 min
Mar 10, 4:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	24 min
Mar 10, 4:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	49 min
Mar 10, 4:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Perry	23 min
Mar 10, 4:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker, Winston	36 min
Mar 10, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Fayette	35 min
Mar 10, 4:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar	33 min
Mar 10, 4:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	31 min
Mar 10, 5:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Perry	32 min
Mar 10, 5:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Fayette, Walker	42 min
Mar 10, 5:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	26 min
Mar 10, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb	37 min
Mar 10, 5:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin	32 min
Mar 10, 5:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	32 min
Mar 10, 5:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	40 min
Mar 10, 5:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Walker	33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.