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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL

January 19, 2001Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 7:38 AM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 67 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: Jan 19, 2001, 7:38 AM CST (13:38 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 2001, 8:45 AM CST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baldwin County, AL

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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 270 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 191340
SVRMOB

ALC003-191445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
738 AM CST FRI JAN 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 845 AM CST

* AT 738 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES WEST OF LATHAM TO 23     
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF POINT CLEAR...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.  THIS LINE 
  OF STORMS PRODUCED A WIND GUST OF 52 MPH AT THE MOBILE AIRPORT. 

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HURRICANE...LATHAM BY 800 AM CST
  BLACKSHER...CARPENTER BY 805 AM CST
  BRIDGEHEAD...CROSSROADS BY 810 AM CST
  BATTLES WHARF...DAPHNE BY 815 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.

LAT...LON 3120 8789 3038 8795 3032 8761 3123 8764

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, 7:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	41 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.