Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL

January 19, 2001Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 2001, 9:20 AM CST for Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 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: Jan 19, 2001, 9:20 AM CST (15:20 UTC)
Expired: Jan 19, 2001, 10:15 AM CST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Butler County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 19, 9:55 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Honoraville, AL	Trees were blown down north of the community by strong thunderstorm winds.

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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 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

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The text

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

835 
WUUS54 KMOB 191520
SVRMOB
ALC013-041-191615-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1015 AM CST

* AT 920 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF HIGHLAND
  HOME TO NEAR INDUSTRY...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HIGHLAND HOME...SAVILLE BY 925 AM CST
  BRADLEYTON...RUTLEDGE BY 930 AM CST
  LUVERNE...LIVE OAK BY 935 AM CST
  GLENWOOD BY 945 AM CST

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3214 8656 3159 8682 3158 8622 3213 8590

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, 7:38 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, 9:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	23 min
Jan 19, 10:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.