Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2001, 3:15 PM CST for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 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
- Nov 24, 2001, 3:15 PM CST (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Clarke County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 3:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Suggsville, AL | High thunderstorm winds blew trees down near the community. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.
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WUUS54 KMOB 242116
SVRMOB
ALC025-242215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
315 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 415 PM CST
* AT 315 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A LARGE CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
JACKSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
JACKSON BY 320 PM CST
WINN BY 325 PM CST
WALKER SPRINGS...MANILLA BY 330 PM CST
ALLEN...SUGGSVILLE BY 335 PM CST
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 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 3160 8800 3135 8787 3149 8763 3163 8760
3174 8762 3190 8773 3179 8792The 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, 1:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 30 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, 3:32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.