Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 3:50 PM CST for Clay County, Cleburne County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 min. 2 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
- Feb 16, 2001, 3:50 PM CST (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 4:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Countywide, AL | Cleburne County reported numerous trees and power lines knocked down and snapped off. Several homes and businesses received varying degrees of roof damage. Many roads were closed because of downed trees. |
| Feb 16, 4:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Countywide, AL | Clay County reported shingle damage on one home and a roof torn off a barn in Lineville. |
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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 162151 SVRBHM ALC027-029-162245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 350 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLAY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA CLEBURNE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 445 PM CST * AT 347 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF HEFLIN TO 35 MILES WEST OF ASHLAND...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. STRONG DAMAGING WIND IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW. FIND SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. LAT...LON 3387 8556 3317 8613 3316 8573 3372 8538
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, 2:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 45 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, 3:58 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 |
Nearby
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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.