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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 197, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2001, 4:30 PM CST for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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, 4:30 PM CST (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2001, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 4:58 PM CST | Hail 1 | Georgiana, AL | |
| Nov 24, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Georgiana, AL | A weak tornado moved nearly 3 miles across mostly wooded areas to the west of Georgiana. Most of the damage along the path of the tornado was to trees. The tornado first touched down near County Road 16 near Panther Creek. From there the tornado moved nort |
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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 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, 4:34 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 |
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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.