Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2001, 5:33 PM CDT for Jackson County, Madison County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 min. 2 reports 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
- May 24, 2001, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jackson County, AL, Madison County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Aspel, AL | A tornado caused damage about 1 mile north of the town of Aspel, near the intersection of County Roads 11 and 101. The tornado path was approximately ½ mile long, 100 yards wide, beginning on the west side of County Road 11. The path began behind a home loc |
| May 24, 6:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Pisgah, AL | Dime to nickel size hail was reported from Pisgah to Rosalie. |
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KBMX 242233 TORBHM ALC071-089-242315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 533 PM CDT THU MAY 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL ALABAMA JACKSON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 529 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER OWENS CROSSROADS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...WOODVILLE... SECTION...SCOTTSBORO...PISGAH...OWENS CROSSROADS...HOLLYWOOD AND GURLEY. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING TORNADO. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES...G)O 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 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR ALABAMA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin | 52 min |
| May 24, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marion | 55 min |
| May 24, 2:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar | 67 min |
| May 24, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 65 min |
| May 24, 3:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Fayette | 54 min |
| May 24, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah, St. Clair | 35 min |
| May 24, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee, DeKalb | 19 min |
| May 24, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Cherokee | 43 min |
| May 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Etowah | 15 min |
| May 24, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Cullman | 28 min |
| May 24, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 24 min |
| May 24, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Walker, Winston | 29 min |
| May 24, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Blount, Etowah | 26 min |
| May 24, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marshall | 16 min |
| May 24, 6:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman, Walker | 23 min |
| May 24, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb, Jackson | 18 min |
| May 24, 6:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 35 min |
| May 24, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 13 min |
| May 24, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 21 min |
| May 24, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount | 49 min |
| May 24, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 30 min |
| May 24, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 24 min |
| May 24, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Morgan | 38 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.