Thunderstorm Wind, Lee
- When
- January 19, 10:40 AM CST
- Where
- Lee County, 6 mi S of Opelika
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 32.567, -85.367
Trees were blown down in the Beauregard area.
Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 19, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
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 Jan 19, 4:11 AM CST, 6 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 4:11 AM CST, 6 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM, AL 411 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001 COLD FRONT NOW WELL DEFINED FROM JUST EAST OF HSV AND TCL TO A LOW N OF NEW ORLEANS. THE LOW IS FORECAST TO PASS SE OF BHM THIS MORNING AND BE INTO NW GA BY NOON. RAINFALL IN THE FFA AREA NW AL HAS DIMINISHED SLIGHTLY BUT REMAINS ALMOST CONTINUOUS AND LIKELY TO PICK UP AGAIN AS THE LOW APPROACHES. RADAR PRECIP ESTIMATES WERE A LITTLE ON THE LOW SIDE...BY MAYBE 30%...AT MIDNIGHT. THERE IS STILL A LOT OF LIGHTNING BACK IN THE COLD AIR OVER LA. WILL CONTINUE THE FF WATCH FOR THIS MORNING. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVIER RAINFALL RATES BUT OF LESSER DURATION AND FLASH FLOODING NOT LIKELY. PRECIP WILL DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...PROBABLY ENDING BEFORE IT CAN CHANGE OVER TO SNOW. EVEN IF A BRIEF PERIOD OF SNOW OCCURS...IT SHOULD MELT AS TEMPS NOT EXPECTED TO FALL BELOW FREEZING UNTIL PRETTY LATE TONIGHT. WE COULD SEE SOME VERY LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS TN VALLEY AFTER MIDNIGHT...SPECIALLY NE AL. MORE CONCERNED ABOUT SNOW ACCUMULATING SAT OVER THE TN VALLEY... SPECIALLY HSV EWD AS STRONG UPPER LOW SWINGS ACROSS TN/KY. MODEL QPF'S DON'T SHOW MUCH BUT BELIEVE WE COULD SEE AN INCH OR SO UP THERE. AREAS ALREADY BEHIND THE FRONT WILL SEE TEMPS STEADY OR FALLING SLOWLY TODAY. WINDS EXPECTED TO HOLD UP THRU SATU BUT WIND CHILL CRITERIA NOT EXPECTED TO BE MET. IT WILL MOST UNPLEASANT ON SAT HOWEVER. HSV RS 044/031 033/020 042 +65 BHM RM 055/029 035/023 044 +51 MGM TE 069/034 040/025 048 +20= .BHM...NONE. 07
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 7:34 AM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before
ALZ001>038-040>050-191500- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 734 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001 HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA. AN INTENSIFYING STORM SYSTEM...MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF THE GULF OF MEXICO ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN STATES...WILL CONTINUE TO BRING RAIN TO NORTH AND CENTRAL ALABAMA TODAY. THE MOST WIDESPREAD RAIN WILL BE IN THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE STATE...WHERE THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING...ESPECIALLY THIS MORNING. SOUTH AND EAST OF INTERSTATE 20...THE RAIN WILL BE MORE SCATTERED IN NATURE. HOWEVER...IT IS IN THIS AREA WHERE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. THE MAIN THREAT TIME FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE DURING THE MORNING HOURS. GUSTY WINDS IN THE WAKE OF THE STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING MUCH COLDER AIR INTO THE STATE FROM THE NORTHWEST...WHILE GRADUALLY DIMINISHING THE EXTENT OF THE RAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR... LOCAL TV AND RADIO...FOR POSSIBLE FLASH FLOOD OR SEVERE WEATHER WARNINGS THROUGH THIS MORNING.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 10:28 AM CST, 12 minutes before
ALZ021-028-029-035>038-040>050-191650- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1028 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN ALABAMA HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 2. CHILTON...COOSA...AUTAUGA...ELMORE...DALLAS...LOWNDES...AND MONTGOMERY. THE WATCH CONTINUES UNTIL 1100 AM CST FOR RANDOLPH...TALLAPOOSA... CHAMBERS...LEE...MACON...RUSSELL...BULLOCK...PIKE...AND BARBOUR.
Local storm report, Jan 19, 10:33 AM CST, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
1033 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001
TIME(CST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
825 AM COUNTY WIDE AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 PERRY TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
PERRY COUNTY EMA.
905 AM HAYNEVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 LOWNDES TREES DOWN
905 AM GORDENVILLE AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 LOWNDES TREES DOWN
905 AM COUNTY WIDE AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 LOWNDES TREES DOWN ON HWY 121
COUNTY ROADS 37 AND 12
NEAR THE CITIES OF
HAYNEVILLE AND
GORDENVILLE.
925 AM MONTGOMERY AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 MONTGOMERY NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWERLINES DOWN
930 AM SOUTH LAWN AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 MONTGOMERY TREE FELL ON A HOUSE IN
THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE
CITY OF MONTGOMERY IN THE
SOUTH LAWN SUBURB.
930 AM MONTGOMERY AL 60 MPH WIND GUST
01/19/01 MONTGOMERY DOWNTOWN MONTGOMERY
935 AM MONTGOMERY AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 MONTGOMERY NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON
HOMES IN EASTERN
MONTGOMERY
945 AM WARE AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 ELMORE TREES DOWN
1005 AM MONTGOMERY AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 MONTGOMERY *** ? INJ ***
SEVERAL INJURIES REPORTED
AT HWY 231 AND NORTHERN
BIRD STREET IN
MONTGOMERY. NOT KNOW HOW
MANY WERE INJURED AT THIS
TIME.
1015 AM REELTOWN AL WIND DAMAGE
01/19/01 TALLAPOOSA NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flood in Georgia, January 19, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Alabama, January 19, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Georgia, January 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, January 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, January 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, January 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, January 19, 2001
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, January 19, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 19, 2001
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, January 19, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 19 to 20, 2001
More
Every storm in Alabama in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Alabama, January 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5231093.