Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 2001, 7:44 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 640 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
625 WUUS54 KMOB 140045 SVRMOB ALC003-140115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 744 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 744 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF LATHAM TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HURRICANE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGE AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BLACKSHER...I65 AND AL 59 BY 750 PM CDT BAY MINETTE...WHITEHOUSE FORKS BY 755 PM CDT STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN 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... 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 3116 8794 3068 8798 3066 8764 3128 8764
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Oct 13, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Oct 13, 7:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Oct 13, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 7:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 39 min |
| Oct 13, 8:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 61 min |
| Oct 13, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 32 min |
| Oct 13, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 54 min |
Nearby
Severe 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.