Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT for George County, Greene County, Mississippi; Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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
- Oct 13, 2001, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
846 WUUS54 KMOB 132347 SVRMOB ALC097-MSC039-041-140030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 647 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 647 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF AGRICOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EVANSTON...LUCEDALE BY 650 PM CDT SHIPMAN BY 655 PM CDT MOFFET BY 700 PM CDT EARLVILLE BY 715 PM CDT STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3084 8870 3072 8856 3096 8823 3112 8842
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 61 min |
| Oct 13, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 61 min |
| Oct 13, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 16 min |
| Oct 13, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 59 min |
| Oct 13, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Perry, Stone | 59 min |
| Oct 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 59 min |
| Oct 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Perry, Stone | 59 min |
| Oct 13, 7:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
| Oct 13, 11:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 12:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 24 min |
| Oct 13, 12:24 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 51 min | |
| Oct 13, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Oct 13, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Monroe | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 1:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 27 min |
| Oct 13, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Oct 13, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 37 min |
| Oct 13, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 22 min |
| Oct 13, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 23 min |
| Oct 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Oct 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Oct 13, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 23 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2001Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.