Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2001, 7:41 PM CST for Henry County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 3, 2001, 7:41 PM CST (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2001, 8:15 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Henry 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 544 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS52 KTAE 040143 SVRTLH ALC067-040215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 741 PM CST SAT MAR 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HENRY COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 815 PM CST... * AT 741 PM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS 7 MILES WEST OF HEADLAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TUMBLETON...CAPPS BY 745 PM CST... ABBEVILLE...ABBEVILLE MUNI A/P BY 750 PM CST... SHORTERVILLE BY 755 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM...BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY MAY BE WASHED OUT. LAT...LON 3170 8541 3131 8541 3132 8510 3175 8512 .END 12-WATSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Coffee, Geneva | 49 min |
| Mar 3, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Dale, Houston | 40 min |
| Mar 3, 7:51 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry | 39 min |
| Mar 3, 7:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Houston | 49 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.