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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 9, 2000Barbour County, Bullock County, Russell County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 9, 2000, 4:14 PM CST for Barbour County, Bullock County, Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report 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: Jan 9, 2000, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 2000, 5:05 PM CST
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Russell County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 9, 4:30 PM CST	Hail 0.88	Midway, AL	Nickel size hail was reported on Pine Grove Road near Midway Station.

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 nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 092217 COR
TORBHM
ALC005-011-113-092305-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
414 PM CST SUN JAN 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED...A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BARBOUR COUNTY... IN SOUTHEASTERN ALABAMA...
  EASTERN BULLOCK COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  RUSSELL COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 505 PM CST.

* AT 413 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A TORNADO ABOUT 5 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF MIDWAY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.  ANOTHER POSSIBLE
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GAINO...ALSO MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

GO TO THE BASEMENT...OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 1:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas, Perry	42 min
Jan 9, 2:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	46 min
Jan 9, 2:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	33 min
Jan 9, 3:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas, Lowndes	48 min
Jan 9, 3:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	60 min
Jan 9, 3:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Montgomery	50 min
Jan 9, 4:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Macon	48 min
Jan 9, 4:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	48 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.