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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 125, NWS Mobile, AL

June 14, 2001Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 2:58 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 14, 2001, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wilcox County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 14, 3:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Sunny South, AL	Several trees were reported down along State Road 5 after strong thunderstorms moved through the area.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 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 141959
SVRMOB

ALC131-142045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 258 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF PINE HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  KIMBROUGH...SHEPPARD BY 310 PM CDT
  YELLOW BLUFF...ANNE MARIE BY 315 PM CDT
  COAL BLUFF BY 320 PM CDT
  ROCKWEST BY 340 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 3200 8765 3186 8759 3205 8691 3204 8716
          3220 8738

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 14, 11:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 11:17 AM CDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESOSCALE UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1117 AM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

KMOB RADAR REALLY STARTING TO LIGHT UP THIS AM WITH NO CAP IN PLACE
AND PRECIPITABLE WATERS NEAR TWO INCHES.  QUICK LATE MORNING UPDATE
TO INCREASE CHANCE OF PRECIP TO LIKELY ALL ZONES (EXCEPT COASTAL
BREAK) AND MENTION SOME STRONG STORMS POSSIBLE...MAIN THREAT BEING
GUSTY SURFACE WINDS TO 45 MPH.  PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN ALSO LIKELY
GIVEN TROPICAL AIR MASS.  NO CHANGES TO TEMPERATURES/WINDS.

UPDATE OUT SHORTLY.

/22

UPDATED PRELIMINARY NUMBERS...
MOB   90  75  89  73 /  40  20  30  20
PNS   89  75  89  75 /  40  20  20  20
DTS   86  78  86  76 /  40  20  20  20
GZH   90  71  90  70 /  60  20  30  30
2R0   90  72  89  68 /  60  20  40  30
61A   90  71  90  68 /  60  20  40  30

.MOB...
AL...NONE.
FL...NONE.
MS...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	25 min
Jun 14, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	46 min
Jun 14, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Monroe	41 min
Jun 14, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	25 min
Jun 14, 1:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	48 min
Jun 14, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	26 min
Jun 14, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	44 min
Jun 14, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Marengo	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.