Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2001, 3:01 AM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 29 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, 3:01 AM CST (09:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2001, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 237 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.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 120901 SVRMOB FLC033-113-120930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 301 AM CST MON MAR 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 330 AM CST * AT 301 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF BARTH...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CHUMUCKLA...MCDAVID BY 310 AM CST JAY BY 325 AM CST BERRYDALE BY 330 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 3082 8756 3071 8744 3081 8696 3100 8706
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 3:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 29 min |
| Mar 12, 12:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 48 min |
| Mar 12, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 45 min |
| Mar 12, 1:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 28 min |
| Mar 12, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 49 min |
| Mar 12, 1:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 43 min |
| Mar 12, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 24 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.