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Tornado Warning 95, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 25, 2001Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 25, 2001, 1:59 AM CST for Barbour County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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 25, 2001, 1:59 AM CST (07:59 UTC)
Expired: Nov 25, 2001, 2:45 AM CST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Barbour County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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: 193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1022 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 423 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

383 
WFUS54 KBMX 250759
TORBHM
ALC005-250845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
159 AM CST SUN NOV 25 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 245 AM CST

* AT 154 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER WEST CENTRAL BARBOUR COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...RURAL NORTHERN
BARBOUR COUNTY.

NIGHTTIME TORNADOES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS. TAKE COVER NOW. IF YOU
WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE.

LAT...LON 3194 8560 3186 8557 3200 8512 3215 8527

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 24, 9:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	25 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.