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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2001, 2:53 PM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 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
- Mar 2, 2001, 2:53 PM CST (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2001, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Choctaw County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Toxey, AL | Wind damage reported in the community as a thunderstorm moved through. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMOB 022053
SVRMOB
ALC023-022200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
253 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 400 PM CST
* AT 253 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF WATER VALLEY...MOVING EAST AT
50 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BARRYTOWN...CHAPPELL HILL BY 300 PM CST
BUTLER...LOU BY 305 PM CST
ARARAT...MT STERLING BY 310 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.
LAT...LON 3208 8845 3178 8846 3184 8820 3199 8812
3214 8814The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 52 min |
| Mar 2, 3:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 66 min |
| Mar 2, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 41 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.