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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Mobile, AL

May 2, 20014 counties in Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2001, 2:29 PM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 31 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, 2:29 PM CDT (19:29 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

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

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 021929
SVRMOB
ALC003-025-099-129-022000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 229 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF TENSAW...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CARLTON...CHOCTAW BLUFF BY 235 PM CDT
  MCINTOSH BY 245 PM CDT
  TOINETTE BY 250 PM CDT
  HAWTHORN...SUNFLOWER BY 255 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 3103 8777 3124 8766 3154 8791 3128 8828
          3118 8800

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, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	37 min
May 2, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe	36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.