Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 10:00 AM CST for Chambers County, Lee County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 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
- Jan 19, 2001, 10:00 AM CST (16:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 11:00 AM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chambers County, AL, Lee County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 10:30 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lafayette, AL | One large tree was knocked down and blocked CR 289. The tree caused damage to a fence and a pole. |
| Jan 19, 10:40 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Opelika, AL | Trees were blown down in the Beauregard area. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 365 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KBMX 191601 SVRBHM ALC017-081-191700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1000 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHAMBERS COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA LEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 1100 AM CST * AT 955 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERCE THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF CHAMBERS AND LEE COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE...OPELIKA AND HUGULEY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 8:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lowndes | 46 min |
| Jan 19, 9:03 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 57 min |
| Jan 19, 9:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa, Elmore | 33 min |
| Jan 19, 9:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Montgomery | 44 min |
| Jan 19, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 45 min |
| Jan 19, 9:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 65 min |
| Jan 19, 9:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Macon | 39 min |
| Jan 19, 9:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 61 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.