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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

February 16, 2001Choctaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2001, 3:13 PM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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: Feb 16, 2001, 3:13 PM CST (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2001, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Choctaw County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 16, 3:25 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Halsell, AL	Strong thunderstorm winds blew shingles off a roof.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 16, 1:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 261 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

852 
WFUS54 KMOB 162115
TORMOB
ALC023-162200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
313 PM CST FRI FEB 16 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 310 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF YANTLEY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PUSHMATAHA...YANTLEY BY 320 PM CST
  CROMWELL...HALSELL BY 325 PM CST
  JACHIN...ROBJOHN BY 335 PM CST
  CHOCTAW CITY...DEAS BY 340 PM 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 3231 8866 3218 8846 3219 8803 3259 8838

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 4:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	66 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.