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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2001, 1:39 AM CST for Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
- Mar 3, 2001, 1:39 AM CST (07:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2001, 2:15 AM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:40 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 684 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
710
WUUS54 KMOB 030740
SVRMOB
ALC097-129-030815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
139 AM CST SAT MAR 3 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 215 AM CST
* AT 139 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOPTON TO 11
MILES WEST OF FAIRFORD...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
SUNFLOWER BY 145 AM CST
MCINTOSH...TOINETTE BY 150 AM CST
FAIRFORD BY 155 AM CST
CALVERT...MALCOLM BY 200 AM CST
STRONG DAMAGING WIND AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.
IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER
UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR LOCAL 911 EMERGENCY CENTER OR LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MOBILE.
LAT...LON 3133 8814 3108 8829 3114 8799 3138 8793
3144 8794The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 1:11 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Washington | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe | 65 min |
| Mar 3, 2:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 45 min |
| Mar 3, 3:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 51 min |
| Mar 3, 7:15 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 11:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 36 min |
| Mar 3, 11:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 28 min |
| Mar 3, 5:15 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 7 more | 6 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.