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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 9, 2000Clay County, Randolph County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 9, 2000, 11:50 PM CST for Clay County, Randolph County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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: Jan 9, 2000, 11:50 PM CST (05:50 UTC)
Expired: Jan 10, 2000, 12:40 AM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clay County, AL, Randolph County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 9, 11:52 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Countywide, AL	Damaging thunderstorm wind moved across the county around midnight. As the storm entered the county, a barn roof was damaged, and a chicken house lost its roof near the intersection of US 431 and CR 82. A barn was totally destroyed, several homes sustained r
Jan 10, 12:05 AM CST	Hail 1.75	Wedowee, AL	Golfball size hail was reported on US 431 just inside the Randolph County line north-northwest of Wedowee.

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
Jan 9, 10:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 395 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBHM 100551
TORBHM
ALC027-111-100640-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1150 PM CST SUN JAN 9 2000

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

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CLAY COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  RANDOLPH COUNTY... IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 1240 AM CST.

* AT 1149 PM CST... WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER EASTERN CLAY COUNTY...NEAR
JUST EAST OF LINEVILLE.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH...AND
WILL MOVE ACROSS RANDOLPH COUNTY.


* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...

IF YOU ARE IN A MULTIPLE STORY BUILDING...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 9:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	40 min
Jan 9, 10:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Perry	34 min
Jan 9, 10:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	47 min
Jan 9, 10:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton	47 min
Jan 9, 11:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	47 min
Jan 9, 11:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Talladega	50 min
Jan 9, 11:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	46 min
Jan 9, 11:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	46 min
Jan 9, 11:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	49 min
Jan 10, 2:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	49 min
Jan 10, 2:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	62 min
Jan 10, 2:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Barbour, Lee, Russell	61 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.