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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2001, 3:47 PM CST for Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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, 3:47 PM CST (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2001, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -187 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 977 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 032148 SVRMOB ALC025-129-032215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 347 PM CST SAT MAR 3 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 347 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TOPTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SUNFLOWER...TOINETTE BY 350 PM CST CORTELUOU...PRESTWICK BY 355 PM CST CARSON...JACKSON BY 400 PM CST ALMA...MANILLA BY 405 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. LAT...LON 3130 8827 3119 8809 3162 8758 3187 8790
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, 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, 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.