Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 78, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 2:03 PM CST for Etowah County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 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, 2:03 PM CST (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Etowah County, AL
The radar
The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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.
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, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 119 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.
802
WFUS54 KBMX 242003
TORBHM
ALC055-242100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
203 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ETOWAH COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 300 PM CST
* AT 159 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RAINBOW CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH.
* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...ATTALLA...
GADSDEN...RAINBOW CITY...REECE CITY AND RIDGEVILLE.
SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS A CLOSET...INTERIOR
BATHROOM...OR HALLWAY. CLOSE ALL DOORS. USE BLANKETS...QUILTS...OR
PILLOWS TO COVER YOURSELF.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST SATURDAY EVENING
FOR ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST
SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3399 8628 3388 8610 3409 8579 3420 8585
3421 8600The 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, 1:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | St. Clair | 52 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, 2:09 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 |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.