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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Birmingham, AL

April 3, 2001Bibb County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2001, 4:11 PM CDT for Bibb County, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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: Apr 3, 2001, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bibb County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 3, 4:35 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Brookwood, AL	Several homeowners in Brookwood reported varying degrees of roof damage which consisted mainly of shingle damage.

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 nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 51 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: 101 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -326 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 692 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 032112
TORBHM

ALC007-125-032200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
411 PM CDT TUE APR 3 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BIBB COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  TUSCALOOSA COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 409 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL TUSCALOOSA COUNTY...NEAR HOLT...MOVING
  EAST9 AT 40 MPH.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin, Marion	27 min
Apr 3, 5:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Autauga, Dallas	41 min
Apr 3, 5:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Etowah, St. Clair	40 min
Apr 3, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion, Winston	47 min
Apr 3, 5:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Franklin	51 min
Apr 3, 6:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee, Etowah	32 min
Apr 3, 6:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marion, Winston	27 min
Apr 3, 6:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, Cleburne	34 min
Apr 3, 6:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas, Lowndes	48 min
Apr 3, 7:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	29 min
Apr 3, 7:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman, Winston	28 min
Apr 3, 7:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	24 min
Apr 3, 7:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Elmore, Montgomery	29 min
Apr 3, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	52 min
Apr 3, 7:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Cullman	35 min
Apr 3, 8:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lawrence	19 min
Apr 3, 8:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker	27 min
Apr 3, 8:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair, Talladega	36 min
Apr 3, 9:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Clay	32 min
Apr 3, 9:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	42 min
Apr 3, 9:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Jefferson	34 min
Apr 3, 10:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Dallas	30 min
Apr 3, 10:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	St. Clair, Talladega	28 min
Apr 3, 3:05 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Jefferson, St. Clair, Walker	3 hr
Apr 3, 3:28 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Clay, Talladega	3 hr
Apr 3, 3:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay, Talladega	34 min
Apr 3, 3:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Marion, Winston	3 hr
Apr 3, 4:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Talladega	23 min
Apr 3, 4:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Shelby	35 min
Apr 3, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Clay	26 min
Apr 3, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bibb, Chilton	47 min
Apr 3, 5:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Blount, Cullman	3 hr
Apr 3, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa	37 min
Apr 3, 5:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Chambers, Randolph, Tallapoosa	3 hr
Apr 3, 5:48 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Clay, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, Talladega, Walker	3 hr
Apr 3, 6:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Winston	101 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.