Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2001, 2:23 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama; George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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
- May 2, 2001, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Wilmer, AL |
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 nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
700 WUUS54 KMOB 021924 SVRMOB ALC097-MSC039-022000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 223 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 223 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOTT AND COLEMAN DAIRY ROADS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WILMER BY 235 PM CDT MOFFET BY 245 PM CDT SHIPMAN BY 300 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 3071 8828 3088 8819 3102 8850 3081 8861
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, 2:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Washington | 27 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 |
| May 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 35 min |
| May 2, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2001Every 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.