Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 29, 2001Pickens County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 29, 2001, 2:03 PM CST for Pickens County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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
Jan 29, 2001, 2:03 PM CST (20:03 UTC)
Expired
Jan 29, 2001, 2:45 PM CST
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Birmingham, AL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pickens County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 29, 11:30 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 133 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2001-01-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2001-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 252 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
252 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KBMX 292003
SVRBHM
ALC107-292045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
203 PM CST MON JAN 29 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PICKENS COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 245 PM CST

* AT 200 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALICEVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...GORDO.

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

LAT...LON 3298 8849 3296 8832 3318 8786 3347 8788
          3338 8822

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 29, 1:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXSumter46 min
Jan 29, 2:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXGreene37 min
Jan 29, 2:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXTuscaloosa66 min
Jan 29, 2:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXHale50 min
Jan 29, 3:34 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBibb, Perry56 min
Jan 29, 3:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJefferson63 min
Jan 29, 4:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXDallas49 min
Jan 29, 4:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXShelby30 min
Jan 29, 4:33 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXChilton42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.