Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2001

Tornado Warning 96, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 25, 2001Barbour County, Russell County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 25, 2001, 2:54 AM CST for Barbour County, Russell County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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, 2:54 AM CST (08:54 UTC)
Expired: Nov 25, 2001, 3:30 AM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Barbour County, AL, Russell County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

932 
WFUS54 KBMX 250854
TORBHM
ALC005-113-250930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA
  SOUTHERN RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 330 AM CST

* AT 250 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER NORTHEASTERN BARBOUR COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE...RURAL EXTREME
NORTHEASTERN BARBOUR COUNTY AND RURAL SOUTHEASTERN RUSSELL 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 3212 8520 3201 8520 3202 8507 3228 8495

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, 1:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	46 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2001 Every tornado warning in 2001 Tornadoes in 2001

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.