Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 7:02 AM CST for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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
- Jan 19, 2001, 7:02 AM CST (13:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 7:30 AM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 7:10 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Chatom, AL | High thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in the community. |
| Jan 19, 7:20 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Mc Intosh, AL | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees along Highway 43 near McIntosh. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -97 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 191303 SVRMOB ALC129-191330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 702 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 730 AM CST * AT 702 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF HEALING SPRINGS TO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEER PARK...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... CHATOM...JORDON BY 710 AM CST SEABOARD BY 710 AM CST BIGBEE...FRANKVILLE BY 715 AM CST STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...ZAND 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 7:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 38 min |
| Jan 19, 7:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 41 min |
| Jan 19, 7:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 67 min |
| Jan 19, 7:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Jan 19, 9:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 55 min |
| Jan 19, 9:37 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 23 min |
| Jan 19, 10:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 28 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.