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Tornado Warning 55, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2000, 8:22 PM CST for Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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, 8:22 PM CST (02:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Tuscaloosa County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 8:28 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Northport, AL | A weak tornado moved northeast through mainly timber land owned by Gulf States Paper Company, north of the Black Warrior River. A few homes near the beginning of the path, and a few in the middle of the path, sustained roof damage. Numerous trees were blow |
| Mar 10, 8:35 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 75 E | Tuscaloosa, AL | A large bow echo, accompanied by downburst wind of 70 to 100 miles per hour moved along Interstate 20/59 through the city of Tuscaloosa and ended near the city of Cottondale. The storm damage path was about 10 miles long and 4 miles wide. The most concentra |
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, 5:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 110223 TORBHM ALC125-110300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 822 PM CST FRI MAR 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 900 PM CST. * AT 822 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NORTHPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... TUSCALOOSA...NORTHPORT...HOLT AND BROOKWOOD. MOTORISTS SHOULD SEEK STURDY STRUCTURE. AS A LAST RESORT...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH...OR DEPRESSION. COVER YOUR HEAD WITH Y=OUR HANDS.
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, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 64 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, 8:27 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 |
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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.