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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Mobile, AL

May 2, 2001Baldwin County, Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2001, 2:03 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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: May 2, 2001, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 1325 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 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 021904
SVRMOB

ALC003-025-129-021930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
203 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 203 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF CARLTON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MALCOLM BY 210 PM CDT
  TOINETTE...MCINTOSH BY 220 PM CDT
  SUNFLOWER...CARSON BY 225 PM CDT
  HAWTHORN...TOPTON BY 230 PM CDT

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS STORM.  IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A
STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3109 8784 3124 8768 3151 8790 3126 8819

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	39 min
May 2, 1:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	23 min
May 2, 1:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe	36 min
May 2, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	37 min
May 2, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington	31 min
May 2, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe	36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.