1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 19, 1:44 PM CST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 244 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2001 FRONT IS FINALLY BEGINNING TO KICK OF SOME SHOWERS JUST NORTH OF THE ALABAMA/TENNESSEE STATE LINE. IF THE MODELS AND SPC ARE CORRECT... THESE SHOWERS SHOULD DEVELOP INTO STRONG STORMS AND THEN MARCH ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MESOETA HINTS AT THIS BY DEVELOPING A VORT MAX OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN ALABAMA BY 03Z. HOWEVER...I AM NOT CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO HAVE HIGH POPS THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING FOR THE ENTIRE AREA. FEELING RIGHT NOW IS THAT ANYWHERE FROM 20 TO 50 PERCENT SHOULD DO. EXCEPTION IS OVER EXTREME SOUTH WHERE CURRENT STORMS ARE. WILL PROBABLY MENTION SEVERE IN ZONES SINCE SPC HAS MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA OUTLOOKED. SECOND PROBLEM IS DEALING WITH HOW FAR SOUTH THE FRONT WILL GO BEFORE STALLING OUT. ETA STALL IT OUT OVER CENTRAL ALABAMA... WHILE THE AVN PUSHES IT FURTHER SOUTH. WILL GO WITH A SOLUTION THAT HAS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA REMAINING DRY THROUGH EARLY WEEK...BUT WILL KEEP SCATTERED SHOWERS IN ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN ZONES. POPS ARE VERY PRELIMINARY...AND WILL DEPEND ON IF STORMS CAN DEVELOP AND GET ORGANIZED BEFORE ISSUANCE TIME. HSV 66/86 62/90 67 200 BHM 68/88 64/90 68 400 MGM 71/91 67/93 69 721 .BHM...NONE.
ALZ001>050-192100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 130 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. A MOIST...AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS REMAINS ACROSS NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA AND WILL COMBINE WITH DAYTIME HEATING. AT THE SAME TIME A COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY PUSH ITS WAY THROUGH THE CWFA TONIGHT AND INTO MONDAY. THESE SHOULD ALL COMBINE TO PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPC HAS THE ENTIRE AREA IN AN OUTLOOK FOR A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE STORMS. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...AND LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS. STORM MOTION SHOULD LIMIT ANY FLOODING TO TEMPORARY PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND COLLECTION OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS. MOST OF THE HEAVIER STORMS SHOULD BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM TUSCALOOSA TO BIRMINGHAM TO ANNISTON. ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL WILL PROBABLY NOT BE NECESSARY THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT...BUT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN AWARE OF ANY DEVELOPING WEATHER. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL FACTOR: HUNTSVILLE IS 1 BIRMINGHAM IS 1 MONTGOMERY IS 1 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT A WET MICROBURST IS... VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BMX/HWO/HWO.HTML
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A few trees and power lines were blown down in Millport and also in Kennedy.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, August 2001
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