Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 74, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 1:38 PM CST for St. Clair County, Alabama. It was in force for 52 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
- Nov 24, 2001, 1:38 PM CST (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 2:30 PM CST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County St. Clair 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 9:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 315 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
134 WFUS54 KBMX 241938 TORBHM ALC115-242030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 138 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ST. CLAIR COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 230 PM CST * AT 135 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER ARGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...ARGO... ASHVILLE...BRANCHVILLE...MARGARET...MOODY...ODENVILLE AND SPRINGVILLE. A TORNADO HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM NEAR TRUSSVILLE WITH DAMAGE. THIS WARNING EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR ST. CLAIR COUNTY. 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 TORNADO MAY BE OBSCURED BY RAIN...AND MAY NOT BE VISIBLE. TAKE COVER NOW. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3374 8655 3358 8652 3387 8611 3393 8632
The office that day
Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 9:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 54 min |
| Nov 24, 9:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lauderdale | 36 min |
| Nov 24, 9:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Sumter | 63 min |
| Nov 24, 10:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 10:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pickens | 28 min |
| Nov 24, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale | 41 min |
| Nov 24, 10:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Greene | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 10:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Lamar, Marion | 23 min |
| Nov 24, 10:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette, Lamar | 53 min |
| Nov 24, 11:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 11:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 48 min |
| Nov 24, 11:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 47 min |
| Nov 24, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 11:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Franklin, Lawrence | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 11:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale | 25 min |
| Nov 24, 11:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 24 min |
| Nov 24, 11:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Winston | 49 min |
| Nov 24, 11:41 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Fayette | 34 min |
| Nov 24, 11:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo, Sumter | 46 min |
| Nov 24, 11:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tuscaloosa | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 11:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 57 min |
| Nov 24, 11:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Walker | 48 min |
| Nov 24, 12:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 12:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb, Tuscaloosa | 33 min |
| Nov 24, 12:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Limestone, Morgan | 43 min |
| Nov 24, 12:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale | 42 min |
| Nov 24, 12:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cullman, Winston | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 12:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marengo | 41 min |
| Nov 24, 12:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Nov 24, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cullman | 49 min |
| Nov 24, 12:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Madison | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 12:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Perry | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 12:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Blount, St. Clair | 49 min |
| Nov 24, 1:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Morgan | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 49 min |
| Nov 24, 1:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bibb | 46 min |
| Nov 24, 1:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Marshall | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Morgan | 19 min |
| Nov 24, 1:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Hale, Marengo, Perry | 48 min |
| Nov 24, 1:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Madison | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 1:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Shelby | 43 min |
| Nov 24, 1:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 47 min |
| Nov 24, 2:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Etowah | 57 min |
| Nov 24, 2:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Jackson, Marshall | 51 min |
| Nov 24, 2:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Perry | 49 min |
| Nov 24, 2:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Shelby | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 2:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 47 min |
| Nov 24, 2:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | DeKalb | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 2:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 39 min |
| Nov 24, 3:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 51 min |
| Nov 24, 3:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 36 min |
| Nov 24, 3:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Talladega | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 3:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 4:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Autauga | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun | 23 min |
| Nov 24, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 50 min |
| Nov 24, 4:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton, Elmore | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 4:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Cherokee | 51 min |
| Nov 24, 4:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Coosa | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Cleburne | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 4:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Calhoun, Talladega | 37 min |
| Nov 24, 4:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa | 17 min |
| Nov 24, 4:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Coosa, Tallapoosa | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Randolph | 27 min |
| Nov 24, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Clay, Randolph | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.