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Tornado Warning 81, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 24, 2001Cherokee County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 2:51 PM CST for Cherokee County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 24, 2001, 2:51 PM CST (20:51 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Cherokee County, AL

The radar

The Northeast Alabama radar (KHTX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 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
Nov 24, 3:01 PM CST	Tornado F2	Sand Rock, AL	The tornado began about 2.7 miles south-southwest of Sand Rock at 3:01 pm moving northeast. The tornado moved across the southern and eastern portions of Sand Rock damaging a number of structures. Two people were killed in a mobile home just east of Sand Roc

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 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 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 242051
TORBHM
ALC019-242130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
251 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHEROKEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 251 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF LEESBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...GAYLESVILLE...
LEESBURG AND SAND ROCK.

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.


LAT...LON 3423 8585 3413 8578 3438 8534 3449 8544

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, 1:38 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, 2:03 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.