1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Tallahassee, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 24, 9:00 PM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 900 PM EST SAT NOV 24 2001 ...SOUTHEAST ALA-SW GEORGIA AND FL PANHANDLE IN A TORNADO WATCH 821 UNTIL 12 AM EST (11 PM EST).. ACTIVE EVENING SO WILL ISSUE SHORT AFD AND UPDATE AS NECESSARY. CURRENTLY LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH EMBEDDED SUPERCELLS ACROSS GULF NEWD THRU PNS AREA AND INTO NCNTRL ALA. INDIVIDUAL STORMS MOVING NE AROUND 35-40 MPH. MOST ACTIVE WX REMAINS ACROSS SCNTRL ALA IN AREA OF PRE-FRONTAL WARM SECTOR...GOOD LLVL CONFLU AND INTENSE LOW-MID JET AROUND BASE OF SHORT WAVE TROF LIFTING NEWD THRU TENN VALLEY. CLOSER TO HOME...LATEST RADAR PIX SHOW SRN SECTION OF LINE SLOWING AND WEAKENING SOME AS UPPER SUPPORT MOVES FARTHER AWAY...DIURNAL HEATING ENDS AND SOUNDINGS AND OBS INDICATE MORE STABLE AIR. STILL HINT OF BOWING IN VERY STRONG STORMS AROUND COVINGTON COUNTY-JUST WEST OF OUR SE ALA COUNTIES. ITS POSSIBLE THAT A FEW SEVERE STORMS MAY TRANSLATE EWD INTO WATCH AREA...ESPECIALLY SE ALA WITHIN NEXT HOUR AND PANHANDLE DURING LATE EVENING WHERE DEW POINTS REMAIN AROUND 70 DEGREES. SATELLITE AND RADAR INDICATE AIR MASS QUITE COOL AND DRY BEHIND FRONT. UPDATED MARINE PACKAGE EARLIER TO ACCOUNT FOR TOR WATCH AFFECTING ADJACENT COAST OF PANHANDLE. EVENING BUOYS LESS THAN 15 KNOTS WITH SEAS AOB 5 FEET. SCA LIKELY TO BE ELIMINATED WITH LATER PACKAGE. WILL MONITOR WX AND WAIT UNTIL LAST MINUTE B4 ISSUING CWF/ZFP. .TLH... .AL...NONE. .GA...NONE. .FL...NONE. BLOCK
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL 741 PM EST SAT NOV 24 2001 TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 12 AM-MIDNIGHT EST (1100 PM CST). THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST GEORGIA AND THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE ALC031-045-061-067-069-250500- IN ALABAMA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES... HENRY...COFFEE...DALE...HOUSTON AND GENEVA FLC005-013-037-045-059-063-077-133-250500- IN FLORIDA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES... JACKSON...HOLMES...WASHINGTON...CALHOUN...LIBERTY...BAY...FRANKLIN AND GULF GAC007-037-061-087-095-099-177-201-205-243-253-273-321-250500- IN GEORGIA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 13 COUNTIES... TERRELL...RANDOLPH...LEE...WORTH...CLAY...DOUGHERTY...CALHOUN... EARLY...BAKER...MITCHELL...MILLER...DECATUR AND SEMINOLE REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
An F1 tornado touched down just south of Ewell and destroyed a double wide mobile home. Its two occupants were seriously injured. Damage surveyed by the NWS.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alabama in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Alabama, 2001Warnings in Alabama, November 2001
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: 5272378.