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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 10, 2000Coosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2000, 7:11 PM CST for Coosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 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, 7:11 PM CST (01:11 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2000, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Coosa County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 57 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: 425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -84 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1281 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 110111
TORBHM
ALC037-110215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COOSA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 815 PM CST.

* AT 711 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WEST
  CENTRAL ELMORE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

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 10, 6:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Franklin	29 min
Mar 10, 6:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lawrence	51 min
Mar 10, 6:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman	44 min
Mar 10, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	36 min
Mar 10, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton	41 min
Mar 10, 6:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Elmore	53 min
Mar 10, 6:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Perry	23 min
Mar 10, 6:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chilton	45 min
Mar 10, 6:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	34 min
Mar 10, 7:01 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore	29 min
Mar 10, 7:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	39 min
Mar 10, 7:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Shelby, Talladega	67 min
Mar 10, 7:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	34 min
Mar 10, 7:26 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chilton	34 min
Mar 10, 7:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Pickens	24 min
Mar 10, 7:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Jefferson	51 min
Mar 10, 8:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	59 min
Mar 10, 8:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Hale	47 min
Mar 10, 8:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	42 min
Mar 10, 8:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	40 min
Mar 10, 8:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tuscaloosa	38 min
Mar 10, 8:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	63 min
Mar 10, 8:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	30 min
Mar 10, 8:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	33 min
Mar 10, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby	45 min
Mar 10, 8:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	45 min
Mar 10, 8:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb, Jackson	42 min
Mar 10, 8:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	47 min
Mar 10, 9:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	41 min
Mar 10, 9:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	24 min
Mar 10, 9:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	23 min
Mar 10, 9:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	64 min
Mar 10, 9:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Perry	25 min
Mar 10, 9:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	40 min
Mar 10, 9:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Shelby	53 min
Mar 10, 9:22 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	53 min
Mar 10, 9:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	18 min
Mar 10, 9:27 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Jefferson	18 min
Mar 10, 9:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	14 min
Mar 10, 9:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	St. Clair	42 min
Mar 10, 9:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	47 min
Mar 10, 9:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	51 min
Mar 10, 9:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga	51 min
Mar 10, 9:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	19 min
Mar 10, 9:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	47 min
Mar 10, 10:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun	41 min
Mar 10, 10:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	52 min
Mar 10, 10:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore	45 min
Mar 10, 10:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	45 min
Mar 11, 6:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	38 min
Mar 11, 7:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour, Bullock	41 min
Mar 11, 8:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Russell	51 min
Mar 11, 8:37 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Russell	38 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.