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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 281

May 24, 200131 counties in Alabama; 41 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 24, 2001, 4:15 PM CDT for 31 counties in Alabama; 41 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2001, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2001, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 72 counties

Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Newton County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Bartow, Floyd	37 min
May 24, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, St. Clair	35 min
May 24, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee, DeKalb	19 min
May 24, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Calhoun, Cherokee	43 min
May 24, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Chattooga	52 min
May 24, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	15 min
May 24, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Pickens	44 min
May 24, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Cullman	28 min
May 24, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth	44 min
May 24, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Floyd, Polk	23 min
May 24, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Gilmer, Gordon	36 min
May 24, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Walker, Winston	29 min
May 24, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount, Etowah	26 min
May 24, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FFC	Hall	36 min
May 24, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Marshall	16 min
May 24, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cullman, Walker	23 min
May 24, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	DeKalb, Fulton, Gwinnett	32 min
May 24, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FFC	Cobb	32 min
May 24, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb, Jackson	18 min
May 24, 6:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Cullman	35 min
May 24, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	13 min
May 24, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	21 min
May 24, 6:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	BMX	Blount	49 min
May 24, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	DeKalb	30 min
May 24, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cherokee	24 min
May 24, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Cullman, Morgan	38 min
May 24, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah	31 min
May 24, 8:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Coosa, Elmore, Tallapoosa	40 min
May 24, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Blount	24 min
May 24, 8:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Etowah, Marshall	32 min

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -159 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 2:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Coosa and 18 more	4 hr
May 24, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Banks, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart and 8 more	6 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.