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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 12:36 PM CDT for Hale County, Perry County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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, 12:36 PM CDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 1:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hale County, AL, Perry County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 031736 TORBHM ALC065-105-031815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1236 PM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA... HALE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 115 PM CDT. * AT 1236 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO OVER NEWBERN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... NEWBERN. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 12:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.