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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Mobile, AL

August 10, 2001Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 2001, 5:52 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 8 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
Aug 10, 2001, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2001, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
8 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Mobile County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2001-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.1000850700500300200100-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2001-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
6625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 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.

639 
WFUS54 KMOB 102253
TORMOB
ALC097-102300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
552 PM CDT FRI AUG 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 552 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR HWY 163 NEAR
  THE DOG RIVER BRIDGE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

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 3068 8816 3051 8812 3051 8796 3068 8800

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.