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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 12, 2001, 11:05 AM CST for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 10 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
- Mar 12, 2001, 11:05 AM CST (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 12, 2001, 11:15 AM CST
- In force
- 10 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Washington County, AL
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, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 499 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
248 WFUS54 KMOB 121707 TORMOB ALC129-121715- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1105 AM CST MON MAR 12 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 1115 AM CST * AT 1103 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF ST STEPHENS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ST STEPHENS BY 1110 AM CST IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3156 8825 3140 8814 3147 8800 3164 8810
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 1:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 32 min |
| Mar 12, 2:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Mar 12, 5:38 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 37 min |
| Mar 12, 6:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 36 min |
| Mar 12, 6:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 29 min |
| Mar 12, 6:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 25 min |
| Mar 12, 9:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 26 min |
| Mar 12, 10:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 10:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 31 min |
| Mar 12, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 26 min |
| Mar 12, 10:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 10:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 18 min |
| Mar 12, 11:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 11:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Mar 12, 11:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe, Wilcox | 65 min |
| Mar 12, 11:44 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 31 min |
| Mar 12, 12:08 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 12:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 34 min |
| Mar 12, 12:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 50 min |
| Mar 12, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 13 min |
| Mar 12, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 43 min |
| Mar 12, 12:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 41 min |
| Mar 12, 1:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 10 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.