Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 19, 2001Montgomery County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 9:03 AM CST for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 19, 2001, 9:03 AM CST (15:03 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 2001, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Montgomery County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 19, 9:19 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 53 M	Maxwell Afb, AL	Wind was measured at 61 mph at Maxwell Air Force Base as a bow echo moved through the area.
Jan 19, 9:22 AM CST	Tornado F0	Montgomery, AL	A tornado from a bow echo configuration first touched down just west of Greenwood Cemetery on Three Mile Branch in eastern Montgomery (city). The tornado was moving northeastward at approximately 50 mph and moved through the Forest Hills area downing trees and
Jan 19, 9:24 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Montgomery, AL	A second path of damage occurred slightly north of the tornado path. Damage occurred from the north side of Gunter Air Force Station along Congressman Dickinson Drive through the Eastern Boulevard/Congressman Dickinson Interchange and into a residential area o

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 19, 6:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 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 
WUUS54 KBMX 191504
SVRBHM

ALC101-191600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
903 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1000 AM CST

* AT 900 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY
  TO 48 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...RURAL
MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING.
DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE ALL POSSIBLE. STAY
INSIDE...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3246 8627 3234 8649 3207 8637 3204 8607

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 19, 8:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lowndes	46 min
Jan 19, 9:12 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore	33 min
Jan 19, 9:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Montgomery	44 min
Jan 19, 9:30 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore	45 min
Jan 19, 9:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	65 min
Jan 19, 9:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Macon	39 min
Jan 19, 9:59 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Randolph	61 min
Jan 19, 10:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee	60 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.