Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2001, 3:56 PM CST for Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 2001, 3:56 PM CST (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Conecuh County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 4:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Belleville, AL | High thunderstorm winds blew trees down along Highway 84 near Belleville. |
| Nov 24, 4:42 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Evergreen, AL | A weak tornado downed trees and power lines around 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, 9.9 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.
378 WUUS54 KMOB 242156 SVRMOB ALC035-242245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 356 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 445 PM CST * AT 356 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR I65 AND CR 6...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CASTLEBERRY BY 400 PM CST BELLEVILLE BY 405 PM CST I65 AND US 84...LOREE BY 415 PM CST I65 AND AL 83...EVERGREEN BY 425 PM CST 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.
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, 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, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 60 min |
| Nov 24, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 58 min |
| Nov 24, 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.