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Tornado Warning 81, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 12:32 PM CDT for Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 3, 2000, 12:32 PM CDT (17:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Madison County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 031733 TORBHM ALC089-031815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1232 PM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MADISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 115 PM CDT. * AT 1232 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO...13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF REDSTONE ARSENAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... REDSTONE ARSENAL...OWENS CROSSROADS AND GURLEY. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES...GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS TORNADO MAY BE OBSCURED BY RAIN...AND MAY NOT BE VISIBLE. TAKE COVER NOW.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon | 54 min |
| Apr 2, 7:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 17 min |
| Apr 2, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 59 min |
| Apr 2, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 64 min |
| Apr 2, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 48 min |
| Apr 2, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 37 min |
| Apr 2, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 40 min |
| Apr 2, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 56 min |
| Apr 2, 9:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 46 min |
| Apr 2, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 62 min |
| Apr 2, 10:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 27 min |
| Apr 2, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 34 min |
| Apr 2, 11:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 12:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 27 min |
| Apr 3, 12:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 12:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Tallapoosa | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 10:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 11:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 11:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 11:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lawrence, Winston | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 11:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 11:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Walker | 47 min |
| Apr 3, 11:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 12:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 12:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Winston | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 12:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 12:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 12:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale, Perry | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 12:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 12:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 57 min |
| Apr 3, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 1:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 67 min |
| Apr 3, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chilton | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 1:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 2:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 2:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Etowah | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 2:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 3:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cleburne | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 32 min |
| Apr 3, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 30 min |
| Apr 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa, Tallapoosa | 42 min |
| Apr 3, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Macon, Tallapoosa | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 5:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee, Macon | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 37 min |
| Apr 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lee | 16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.