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Tornado Warning 94, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 24, 2001Pike County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 9:50 PM CST for Pike County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 24, 2001, 9:50 PM CST (03:50 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 10:15 PM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Pike 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, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 1498 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 429 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.1
Supercell composite: 12.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

538 
WFUS54 KBMX 250351
TORBHM
ALC109-250415-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN PIKE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1015 PM CST

* AT 948 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADO NEAR BRUNDIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...BANKS AND
BRUNDIDGE.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER NOW.
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

THIS TORNADO MAY BE OBSCURED BY RAIN...AND MAY NOT BE VISIBLE. TAKE
COVER NOW.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 6:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	47 min
Nov 24, 8:08 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Montgomery	52 min
Nov 24, 8:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pike	35 min
Nov 24, 8:46 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Bullock	29 min
Nov 25, 1:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	46 min
Nov 25, 2:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour, Russell	36 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.