Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 7:34 AM CST for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report 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, 7:34 AM CST (13:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2001, 8:15 AM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarke County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 7:45 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Thomasville, AL | Numerous trees and some power lines were blown down, and some minor roof damage also occurred as a line of severe thunderstorms moved across the area. Most of the wind damage occurred just east of Highway 43, along Basset Creek, between Thomasville and Fulton |
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
431 WUUS54 KMOB 191334 SVRMOB ALC025-191415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 734 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 815 AM CST * AT 734 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHILTON TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHOCTAW BLUFF...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... RURAL BY 740 AM CST PEACOCK BY 745 AM CST GROVE HILL...FULTON BY 750 AM CST CHOCTAW BLUFF...DICKINSON BY 755 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 7:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 28 min |
| Jan 19, 7:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 38 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 |
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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.