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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Mobile, AL

June 11, 2001Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2001, 6:16 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 14 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: Jun 11, 2001, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2001, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 14 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Covington County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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.

526 
WFUS54 KMOB 112316
TORMOB
ALC039-112330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 612 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF EODA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  NORTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY.

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 3133 8643 3121 8634 3132 8610 3149 8620

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, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	34 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.