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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2001, 1:45 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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
- Nov 24, 2001, 1:45 PM CST (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wilcox County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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
- 185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 315 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
878 WUUS54 KMOB 241945 SVRMOB ALC131-242015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 145 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 215 PM CST * AT 145 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CANTON BEND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... CENTRAL WILCOX AND NORTHERN WILCOX COUNTIES. 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 3210 8749 3196 8735 3205 8717 3219 8734
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 10:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 33 min |
| Nov 24, 11:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 12:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 12:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 1:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 61 min |
| Nov 24, 2:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 59 min |
| Nov 24, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 60 min |
| Nov 24, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 58 min |
| Nov 24, 3:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 49 min |
| Nov 24, 4:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 33 min |
| Nov 24, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 45 min |
| Nov 24, 4:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 26 min |
| Nov 24, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 35 min |
| Nov 24, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 38 min |
| Nov 24, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 5:43 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 107 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.