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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Mobile, AL

June 14, 2001Clarke County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 2:04 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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 14, 2001, 2:04 PM CDT (19:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clarke County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1301 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1301 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 141905
SVRMOB

ALC025-141930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
204 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 204 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OPINE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  OPINE BY 215 PM CDT
  TALLAHATTA SPRINGS BY 220 PM CDT

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM.  IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A
STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3183 8813 3173 8801 3192 8777 3199 8805

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 12:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWashington25 min
Jun 14, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWashington46 min
Jun 14, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia, Monroe41 min
Jun 14, 1:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw25 min
Jun 14, 1:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBChoctaw48 min
Jun 14, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox44 min
Jun 14, 2:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke, Marengo40 min
Jun 14, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox47 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.