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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2000, 5:18 PM CST for Fayette County, Walker County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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 10, 2000, 5:18 PM CST (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, AL, Walker County, AL
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 102320 TORBHM ALC057-127-110000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 518 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WALKER COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... FAYETTE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 600 PM CST. * AT 518 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BERRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... PARRISH...OAKMAN AND BERRY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID 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, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 42 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, 5:19 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.