Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2001, 6:06 PM CST for Montgomery County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 2, 2001, 6:06 PM CST (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2001, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:29 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Montgomery, AL | The tornado began in the Woodmere area where a number of houses sustained roof damage primarily in the form of lost shingles, fences were downed, and small trees were uprooted. The tornado moved northeast and tracked through the Beauvoir Lake subdivision where |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KBMX 030006
TORBHM
ALC101-030045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
606 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN ALABAMA
* UNTIL 645 PM CST
* AT 602 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONTGOMERY...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TOaRNADO INCLUDE...MONTGOMERY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST FRIDAY EVENING FOR
ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3232 8646 3225 8640 3225 8600 3241 8603
3246 8618The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Bullock, Macon | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 9:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 27 min |
| Mar 3, 4:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Elmore, Lowndes, Montgomery | 3 hr |
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.