Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2001, 12:40 PM CST for Covington County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 min. 4 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
- Mar 12, 2001, 12:40 PM CST (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2001, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Red Level, AL | A tornado touched down along the leading edge of a bow echo in the Pigeon Creek area just north of Red Level. The tornado destroyed a manufactured home with three people inside. Two of the occupants were killed and one was injured. The tornado appeared to h |
| Mar 12, 1:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 75 E | Dozier, AL | Structural damage, due to high thunderstorm winds, was reported in the community. |
| Mar 12, 1:20 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Gantt, AL | The line of intense thunderstorms that had moved through the Red Level and Pigeon Creek areas of Covington county caused more damage along U. S. 29. just northeast of Gantt. The damage was mostly confined to the west side of the lake. The high winds caused d |
| Mar 12, 1:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Opp, AL | Several trees were blown down just east of Opp as a line of thunderstorms moved through the area. The storms were moving east and weakened as they moved out of Covington county. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 625 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 397 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 1:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 32 min |
| 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, 12:47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.