Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2001, 1:55 AM CST for Baldwin County, Clarke County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 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, 1:55 AM CST (07:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2001, 3:00 AM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
909 WUUS54 KMOB 030755 SVRMOB ALC003-025-099-030900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 155 AM CST SAT MAR 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 300 AM CST * AT 155 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CARLTON TO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CARLTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... CARLTON BY 210 AM CST CHOCTAW BLUFF BY 215 AM CST GAINESTOWN BY 225 AM CST CHRYSLER...ELISKA BY 230 AM 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 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 3144 8787 3125 8791 3129 8757 3157 8742
The 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, 1:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 36 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.