Severe Thunderstorm Warning 218, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

May 28, 2001, 7:33 PM CDT (00:33 UTC)

Expired

May 28, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT

In force

42 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Bibb County, AL

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

914 
WUUS54 KBMX 290034
SVRBHM
ALC007-290115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
733 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 728 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BRENT...MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE RURAL SOUTHERN BIBB 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 3291 8742 3285 8726 3286 8690 3306 8695

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 2:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
250 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2001

500 MB SHORT WAVE FCST TO MOVE INTO AND ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT.
SEVERAL IMPULSES WILL PASS ACROSS THE AREA(1 SOUTH/1 NORTH)...THEN
SHIFT EAST OF THE AREA ON TUE.  WEAK BNDRY JUST NORTH OF THE AREA
WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD TO NEAR OR JUST S OF BHM BY LATE TUE AFT.  MODELS
DEPICT DRIER AIR SPREADING INTO THE NRN HALF OF THE AREA...BUT
WORRISOME 700 MB FLOW WILL BRING ANY ACTIVITY THAT DVLPS TO OUR WEST
INTO PORTIONS OF W AL TUE AFTN.   THIS COUPLED WITH NMRS BNDRYS
ALREADY IN PLACE WILL STILL WARRANT SOME SMALL POPS ACROSS THE N AND
CHC POPS SOUTH FOR TUE.  NEXT SYS WILL APPROACH THE AREA ON WED AND
WILL ALSO CARRY SMALL POPS(ISOLD WORDING).  TEMPS WILL BE CLOSE TO
SEASONAL NORMS.

HSV 61/82/58/82 61-1
BHM 64/84/60/84 52-1
MGM 64/85/62/86 5312

.BHM...NONE.

In the hours before

ALZ001>038-040>050-282200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
309 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2001

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA.

AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE...AND MOIST...UNSTABLE AIR...ARE COMBINING
TO PRODUCE ACTIVE WEATHER ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.
WITH HIGHLY UNSTABLE AIR...AND STRONGER MID LEVEL WINDS...STORMS
THAT DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT MAY PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS
AND LARGE HAIL. AS A RESULT...THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED
ALL OF ALABAMA UNDER A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. SOME OF
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO THE NIGHTTIME
HOURS.

ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT MAY BE
NECESSARY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE EVENING OR NIGHTTIME HOURS.
PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...AND LOCAL BROADCASTS.

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

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.