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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Birmingham, AL

January 19, 2001Tallapoosa County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 19, 2001, 9:40 AM CST for Tallapoosa County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued: Jan 19, 2001, 9:40 AM CST (15:40 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 2001, 10:45 AM CST
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Tallapoosa County, AL

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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 100 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.

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 191542
TORBHM

ALC123-191645-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TALLAPOOSA COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1045 AM CST

* AT 935 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DADEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT    
  50 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...JACKSONS' GAP...
DADEVILLE AND CAMP HILL.

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. THIS STORM HAS ALREADY CAUSED
DAMAGE IN THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY.

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

LAT...LON 3279 8595 3261 8578 3276 8562 3295 8581

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, 9:30 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.