Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2001, 1:58 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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 12, 2001, 1:58 AM CST (07:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2001, 2:30 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:59 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
158 WUUS54 KMOB 120758 SVRMOB ALC097-120830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 158 AM CST MON MAR 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 230 AM CST * AT 158 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DEES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... DAWES...HUTCHENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BY 205 AM CST MOBILE AIRPORT...MOBILE GREYHOUND PARK BY 210 AM CST COTTAGE HILL PARK...HOLLINGERS ISLAND BY 215 AM CST AIRPORT AND UNIVERSITY...I10 AND I65 INTERSECTIONS BY 220 AM 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 3059 8847 3043 8837 3058 8802 3080 8804
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 2:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Mar 12, 5:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 37 min |
| Mar 12, 6:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 36 min |
| Mar 12, 6:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 29 min |
| Mar 12, 6:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 25 min |
| Mar 12, 9:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 26 min |
| Mar 12, 10:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 10:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 31 min |
| Mar 12, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 26 min |
| Mar 12, 10:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 10:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 18 min |
| Mar 12, 11:05 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 10 min |
| Mar 12, 11:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 11:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 11:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe, Wilcox | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 11:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 31 min |
| Mar 12, 12:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 13 min |
| Mar 12, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 43 min |
| Mar 12, 12:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 41 min |
| Mar 12, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 10 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.