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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2000, 5:43 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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, 5:43 PM CST (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa 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 10, 2:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 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.
- 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 102344 TORBHM ALC125-110015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 543 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 615 PM CST. * AT 543 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 7 MILES EAST OF BROOKWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... BROOKWOOD. 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, 5:18 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, 5:50 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.