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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Birmingham, AL

March 30, 2000Bullock County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2000, 5:49 AM CST for Bullock County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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 30, 2000, 5:49 AM CST (11:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 30, 2000, 6:15 AM CST
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Bullock County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 267 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1528 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
342 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 
WFUS54 KBMX 301149
TORBHM
ALC011-301215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
549 AM CST THU MAR 30 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH BULLOCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 615 AM CST.

* AT 549 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  DEVELOPING TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF UNION SPRINGS...MOVING EAST AT
  45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...  UNION
  SPRINGS.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 29, 9:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPerry24 min
Mar 29, 11:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXPike40 min
Mar 30, 12:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBarbour, Pike58 min
Mar 30, 12:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXRussell24 min
Mar 30, 1:27 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXElmore33 min
Mar 30, 1:38 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTallapoosa37 min
Mar 30, 2:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLee28 min
Mar 30, 2:44 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson46 min
Mar 30, 3:21 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby24 min
Mar 30, 5:12 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMontgomery33 min
Mar 30, 5:34 AM CSTTornado WarningBMXMontgomery26 min
Mar 30, 6:18 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBullock, Macon27 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.