Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 4:28 PM CST for Randolph County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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, 4:28 PM CST (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 4:32 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, AL | Randolph County reported several trees and power lines blown down throughout the county. |
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, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 162230 SVRBHM ALC111-162315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 428 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RANDOLPH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 515 PM CST * AT 423 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR HOLLIS CROSSROADS IN CLEBURNE COUNTY TO NEAR ASHLAND IN CLAY COUNTY. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...WEDOWEE...WADLEY AND ROANOKE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.
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, 3:50 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, 4:36 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.