Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2001, 6:38 PM CST for Autauga County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2001, 6:38 PM CST (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2001, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Autauga County, AL
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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -114 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 170038 SVRBHM ALC001-170115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 638 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... AUTAUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 715 PM CST * AT 635 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES WEST OF AUTAUGAVILLE TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AUTAUGAVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...PRATTVILLE. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP SUDDENLY FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS8. LAT...LON 3253 8702 3241 8679 3245 8640 3271 8636
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 16, 3:14 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 3:14 PM CST, 3 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 314 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 STORMY TONIGHT WITH MORE SEVERE STORMS...ESPECIALLY EAST AND SOUTH. RAIN ENDING...TURNING COLDER...THE CLEAFRING BY TOMORROW MORNING. CHILLY BUT OTHERWISE TRANQUIL FOR THE WEEKEND. HSV 035/046/024/050/035 +00 BHM 039/048/024/051/036 +00 MGM 042/053/028/057/037 +00 .BHM...NONE.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Feb 16, 2:46 PM CST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
246 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
233 PM AL 1.00 INCH HAIL
02/16/01 TUSCALOOSA
240 PM AL WIND DAMAGE
02/16/01 TUSCALOOSA STRUCTURAL DAMAGE IN SR
69/FLAT WOODS COMMUNITY
248 PM LYNN AL 0.75 INCH HAIL
02/16/01 WINSTON DIME SIZE HAIL IN THE
COUNTY ROAD 25/LYNN AREASpecial weather statement, Feb 16, 4:21 PM CST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
ALZ003>028-030>036-040>042-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 421 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23... BLOUNT...CULLMAN...FAYETTE...FRANKLIN...JEFFERSON... LAMAR...LAWRENCE...LIMESTONE...MADISON...MARION... MORGAN...PICKENS...TUSCALOOSA...WALKER...WINSTON... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23 WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM... AUTAUGA...BIBB...CALHOUN...CHEROKEE...CHILTON... CLAY...CLEBURNE...COOSA...DALLAS...DEKALB... ETOWAH...GREENE...HALE...JACKSON...LOWNDES... MARSHALL...PERRY...SHELBY...ST. CLAIR...SUMTER... TALLADEGA...
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 4:47 PM CST, 1 hour 51 minutes before
ALZ003>028-030>036-040>042-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 447 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23... BIBB...BLOUNT...CALHOUN...CHEROKEE...CLEBURNE... CULLMAN...DEKALB...ETOWAH...FAYETTE...FRANKLIN... JACKSON...JEFFERSON...LAMAR...LAWRENCE...LIMESTONE... MADISON...MARION...MARSHALL...MORGAN...PICKENS... SHELBY...ST. CLAIR...TALLADEGA...TUSCALOOSA...WALKER... WINSTON... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23 WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM... AUTAUGA...CHILTON...CLAY...COOSA...DALLAS... GREENE...HALE...LOWNDES...PERRY...SUMTER...
Special weather statement, Feb 16, 5:27 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
ALZ003>028-030>036-040>042-170100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA 527 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23... BIBB...BLOUNT...CALHOUN...CHEROKEE...CLAY... CLEBURNE...CULLMAN...DEKALB...ETOWAH...FAYETTE... FRANKLIN...GREENE...HALE...JACKSON...JEFFERSON... LAMAR...LAWRENCE...LIMESTONE...MADISON...MARION... MARSHALL...MORGAN...PICKENS...SHELBY...ST. CLAIR... SUMTER...TALLADEGA...TUSCALOOSA...WALKER...WINSTON... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES REMAIN IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 23 WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM... AUTAUGA...CHILTON...COOSA...DALLAS...LOWNDES... PERRY...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Dallas | 36 min |
| Feb 16, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Elmore, Montgomery | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.