Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Tallahassee, FL
NWS Tallahassee, FL issued this tornado warning at Jan 19, 2001, 9:25 AM CST for Geneva County, Houston County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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
- Jan 19, 2001, 9:25 AM CST (15:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Tallahassee, FL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Geneva County, AL, Houston 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS52 KTAE 191526 TORTLH ALC061-069-191600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 925 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN GENEVA COUNTY IN ALABAMA WESTERN HOUSTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES DOTHAN... * UNTIL 1000 AM CST... * AT 923 AM CST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF SLOCOMB...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DALEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... TAYLOR BY 935 AM CST... DOTHAN BY 945 AM CST... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABAN DON YOUR MOBILE HOME FOR A REINFORCED SHELTER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3113 8577 3100 8563 3125 8530 3125 8548 .END 18-WOOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Tallahassee, FL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 9:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Henry | 24 min |
| Jan 19, 11:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Geneva | 41 min |
| Jan 19, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry, Houston | 51 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes 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.