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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 19, 2001Montgomery County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 19, 2001, 9:16 AM CST for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 19, 2001, 9:16 AM CST (15:16 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 2001, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Montgomery County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 19, 9:19 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 53 M	Maxwell Afb, AL	Wind was measured at 61 mph at Maxwell Air Force Base as a bow echo moved through the area.
Jan 19, 9:22 AM CST	Tornado F0	Montgomery, AL	A tornado from a bow echo configuration first touched down just west of Greenwood Cemetery on Three Mile Branch in eastern Montgomery (city). The tornado was moving northeastward at approximately 50 mph and moved through the Forest Hills area downing trees and

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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 491 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 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.

544 
WFUS54 KBMX 191516
TORBHM
ALC101-191600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
916 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1000 AM CST

* AT 910 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS FROM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  MONTGOMERY TO 39 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THESE TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS
INCLUDE...MONTGOMERY.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST
FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3238 8601 3239 8639 3209 8637 3199 8602

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, 9:30 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
Jan 19, 10:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee	60 min

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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.