Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 19, 2001, 9:30 AM CST for Elmore County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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
- Jan 19, 2001, 9:30 AM CST (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 10:15 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Elmore County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 9:30 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Eclectic, AL | Trees and power lines were knocked down in Eclectic. |
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, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 191531 TORBHM ALC051-191615- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 930 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ELMORE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA...THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. * UNTIL 1015 AM CST * AT 925 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ECLECTIC...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...ECLECTIC. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES...GO TO A STURDY BUILDING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHERN ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3252 8623 3247 8590 3258 8591 3274 8598
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, 9:40 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 |
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.