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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Mobile, AL

June 14, 2001Choctaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 2001, 1:57 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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: Jun 14, 2001, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 14, 2001, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 48 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
Jun 14, 2:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Toxey, AL	Trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm winds.

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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 1560 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 559 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 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.

742 
WFUS54 KMOB 141857
TORMOB
ALC023-141945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
157 PM CDT THU JUN 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 155 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF BARRYTOWN...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WIMBLY...HODGEWOOD BY 205 PM CDT
  NEEDHAM...ARARAT BY 210 PM CDT
  LAND BY 215 PM CDT
  ROCK SPRINGS BY 220 PM CDT

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 3179 8840 3177 8819 3219 8810 3222 8836

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	25 min
Jun 14, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	46 min
Jun 14, 1:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Monroe	41 min
Jun 14, 1:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	25 min
Jun 14, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	26 min
Jun 14, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	44 min
Jun 14, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Marengo	40 min
Jun 14, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	47 min

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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.