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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL

June 11, 2001Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 5:41 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2001, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Covington County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 11, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Libertyville, AL	An F0 tornado first touched down on State Road 55 several miles south of Libertyville, near the Stanley community. Six homes, and a church sustained some minor roof damage, and two outbuildings were also damaged. The tornado tracked northeast, crossing Coun

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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 1434 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -22 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 
WFUS54 KMOB 112242
TORMOB
ALC039-112315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
541 PM CDT MON JUN 11 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 539 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO 3  MILES NORTH OF 
RED OAK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SANFORD BY 555 PM CDT
  BABBIE BY 600 PM CDT

IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON h3115 8659 3109 8651 3126 8631 3132 8636

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	64 min
Jun 11, 7:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	37 min
Jun 11, 7:45 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	30 min
Jun 11, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	61 min
Jun 11, 8:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	24 min
Jun 11, 9:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	60 min
Jun 11, 9:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	31 min
Jun 11, 1:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	12 hr
Jun 11, 6:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	14 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.