Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 173, NWS Birmingham, AL

May 24, 2001Bibb County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2001, 9:28 PM CDT for Bibb County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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: May 24, 2001, 9:28 PM CDT (02:28 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Bibb County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 24, 9:30 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Eoline, AL	Nickel size hail was observed in Eoline.

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 nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 38 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: 428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1968 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 438 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 250229
SVRBHM

ALC007-250315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
928 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BIBB COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT

* AT 926 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF BRENT...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...BRENT AND 
CENTREVILLE.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM
PASSES.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 24, 9:18 PM CDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 9:18 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
918 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

UPDATED THE ZONES TO REMOVE THE EXPIRED WATCH.  WILL LIKELY UPDATE
AGAIN AROUND 10 PM TO TAKE RAIN OUT FROM HSV WEST.

.BHM...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 8:20 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
820 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0450 PM    RAINBOW CITY              AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   ETOWAH                         PUBLIC REPORTED.

0456 PM    RAINBOW CITY              AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   ETOWAH                         EMA REPORTED

0530 PM    HANCEVILLE                AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        EMA REPORTED.

0540 PM    BLOUNTSVILLE              AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   BLOUNT                         REPORTED BY POLICE.

0545 PM    BLOUNTSVILLE              AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   BLOUNT                         REPORTED BY BLOUNT COUNTY
                                          EMA. 2 TO 3 TREES DOWN
                                          EAST OF BLOUNTSVILLE.

0545 PM                              AL   TORNADO
05/24/01   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          COUNTY EMA. TORNADO
                                          TOUCHDOWN NEAR ASPEL.
                                          DAMAGE TO THE CORNER OF A
                                          HOUSE.

0600 PM    ROSALIE                   AL   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   JACKSON                        SPOTTER REPORTED.

0600 PM    BASS                      AL   WIND DAMAGE
05/24/01   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          COUNTY EMA. TREES DOWN. 2
                                          HOMES W/DAMAGE...1 WITH
                                          TREE ON IT.

0620 PM    JASPER                    AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   WALKER                         REPORTED BY WALKER COUNTY
                                          EMA. FUNNEL CLOUD FORMING
                                          HEADING TOWARDS CURRY
                                          ALONG HIGHWAY 257.

0620 PM    HANCEVILLE                AL   TORNADO
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        TORNADO ON THE GROUND SW
                                          CULLMAN COUNTY HEADING
                                          TOWARDS
                                          HANCEVILLE.REPORTED BY
                                          STATE TROOPER.

0620 PM    PISGAH                    AL   0.88 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   JACKSON                        REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0625 PM    ARKADELPHIA               AL   FUNNEL CLOUD
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        REPORTED BY CULLMAN
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0634 PM    IDER                      AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   DEKALB                         REPORTED BY JACKSON
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0635 PM    DOUBLE SPRINGS            AL   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   WINSTON                        REPORTED BY WINSTON
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0655 PM                              AL   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        REPORTED BY CULLMAN
                                          COUNTY EMA.

0700 PM    LOGAN                     AL   FUNNEL CLOUD
05/24/01   CULLMAN                        REPORTED BY CULLMAN
                                          COUNTY EMA. POSSIBLE
                                          FUNNEL CLOUD WEST OF
                                          CULLMAN.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	31 min
May 24, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Lowndes	32 min
May 24, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Montgomery	41 min
May 24, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa	40 min
May 24, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	24 min
May 24, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, Marshall	32 min
May 24, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Sumter	30 min
May 24, 9:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	36 min
May 24, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Hale	32 min
May 24, 9:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chilton, Shelby	44 min
May 24, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Talladega	49 min
May 24, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	43 min
May 24, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb, Marshall	52 min
May 24, 11:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Greene, Sumter	34 min
May 25, 12:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson, Shelby	26 min
May 25, 12:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair	52 min
May 25, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Shelby	30 min
May 25, 1:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Talladega	39 min
May 25, 1:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cleburne	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.