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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Mobile, AL

June 11, 2001Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2001, 7:59 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 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: Jun 11, 2001, 7:59 AM CDT (12:59 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2001, 9:00 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baldwin 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
Jun 11, 7:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 111259
SVRMOB
ALC003-111400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
759 AM CDT MON JUN 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 900 AM CDT

* AT 759 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM HURRICANE TO 16 MILES WEST OF
  MOUTH OF WEEKS BAY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BRIDGEHEAD AND CROSSROADS BY 805 AM CDT
  BATTLES WHARF AND DAPHNE BY 810 AM CDT
  DOUGLASVILLE AND BAY MINETTE BY 815 AM CDT
  STEELWOOD BY 820 AM CDT

STRONG DAMAGING WIND AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THESE 
STORMS.  IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY 
SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVZERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.

LAT...LON 3092 8794 3028 8815 3025 8750 3063 8745
          3089 8766

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	64 min
Jun 11, 7:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	37 min
Jun 11, 7:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	30 min
Jun 11, 8:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	24 min
Jun 11, 9:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	60 min
Jun 11, 9:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	31 min
Jun 11, 1:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	12 hr
Jun 11, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	34 min
Jun 11, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	14 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.