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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2001, 1:02 PM CST for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 12, 2001, 1:02 PM CST (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2001, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Escambia County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 1:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Molino, FL | Trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm winds near Molino. |
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 1587 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 367 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 453 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.1
- Supercell composite
- 19.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 121903 SVRMOB FLC033-121930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 102 PM CST MON MAR 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 130 PM CST * AT 102 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES EAST OF MOLINO TO 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANTONMENT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... GONZALEZ BY 105 PM CST BELLVIEW...ENSLEY BY 110 PM CST FERRY PASS BY 115 PM CST BRENT...BROWNSVILLE BY 120 PM 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3078 8733 3068 8740 3035 8737 3041 8717
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 3:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 29 min |
| 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, 1:11 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.