Severe Thunderstorm Warning 392, NWS Birmingham, AL

Issued

Oct 24, 2001, 7:32 PM CDT (00:32 UTC)

Expired

Oct 24, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT

In force

43 min

Issued by

NWS Birmingham, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, AL

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.

837 
WUUS54 KBMX 250034
SVRBHM
ALC077-250115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
732 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAUDERDALE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 729 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 24 MILES NORTH OF WATERLOO TO 19
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF WATERLOO...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...WATERLOO 
AND MURPHY CROSSROADS.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW. FIND
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS...VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES.

NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 24, 3:04 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL
304 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001

A GOOD SOUTHERLY LOW LEVEL FLOW CONTINUES TO PUMP MOISTURE INTO AL
THIS AFTERNOON, AND DEW POINTS WERE INTO THE 70S WELL INTO CENTRAL
AL. A STRONG AND FAST MOVING COLD FRONT WILL PUSH INTO THIS UNSTABLE
AIRMASS THIS EVENING, ENTERING NORTHWEST AL AROUND 00Z AND THEN OUT
OF THE AREA BEFORE DAYBREAK THURSDAY.  MOST UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT WITH
THIS SYSTEM REMAINS WELL TO THE NORTH WHERE THERE IS A HIGH RISK OF
SEVERE WEATHER, BUT LOW LEVEL FORCING AND GOOD INSTABILITY SHOULD BE
ENOUGH TO MENTION THE CHANCE OF SEVERE OVER THE NORTHWEST PORTION OF
THE AREA THIS EVENING. A SQUALL LINE WILL LIKELY PRECEDE THE FRONT
AND IT IS ALONG THIS LINE WHERE SOME STORMS COULD BE SEVERE. AS THE
STORMS CONTINUE SOUTHEAST, THE AIRMASS WILL STABILIZE AND THE STORMS
SHOULD WEAKEN. A GENERAL COOLING TREND WILL BEGIN THURSDAY.

HSV 049/066 038/067 8000
BHM 052/069 038/068 7000
MGM 059/075 039/071 6000

.BHM...NONE.

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.