Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 2:45 PM CST for Blount County, Cullman County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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
- Feb 16, 2001, 2:45 PM CST (20:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Blount County, AL, Cullman County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 3:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Countywide, AL | Cullman County reported numerous trees and power lines blown down. The Cold Springs School was damaged by falling trees and power lines. Several trees fell on vehicles and homes causing damage. One mobile home was destroyed on CR 52. A funnel cloud was sig |
| Feb 16, 3:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Countywide, AL | Blount County reported numerous trees and power lines knocked down. Many of the downed trees blocked roadways causing temporary closure. Several homes and businesses sustained roof damage. A few barns were totally destroyed. A few chicken houses were damag |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 1:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 162045 SVRBHM ALC009-043-162130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 245 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BLOUNT COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA CULLMAN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 330 PM CST * AT 243 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 28 MILES WEST OF GOOD HOPE TO 21 MILES WEST OF SMOKE RISE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...ONEONTA AND CULLMAN. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STRONG DAMAGING WIND IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW. FIND SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 1:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Madison | 24 min |
| Feb 16, 1:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Pickens | 41 min |
| Feb 16, 1:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 51 min |
| Feb 16, 1:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson | 34 min |
| Feb 16, 1:57 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Greene, Sumter | 48 min |
| Feb 16, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette, Tuscaloosa | 40 min |
| Feb 16, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 2:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 35 min |
| Feb 16, 2:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson, Walker | 43 min |
| Feb 16, 2:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb, Jefferson, Shelby | 51 min |
| Feb 16, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 50 min |
| Feb 16, 2:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale | 37 min |
| Feb 16, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 37 min |
| Feb 16, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 52 min |
| Feb 16, 3:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 52 min |
| Feb 16, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 29 min |
| Feb 16, 3:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, Marshall | 38 min |
| Feb 16, 3:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bibb | 64 min |
| Feb 16, 3:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby, Talladega | 31 min |
| Feb 16, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 43 min |
| Feb 16, 3:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 42 min |
| Feb 16, 3:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, DeKalb | 64 min |
| Feb 16, 3:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Clay, Cleburne | 55 min |
| Feb 16, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Talladega | 32 min |
| Feb 16, 4:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee, Cleburne | 34 min |
| Feb 16, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 47 min |
| Feb 16, 4:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 24 min |
| Feb 16, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 36 min |
| Feb 16, 5:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chambers | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.