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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Mobile, AL

August 19, 2001Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 19, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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 19, 2001, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2001, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 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

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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: 1581 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 856 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 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.

812 
WFUS54 KMOB 192045
TORMOB
ALC039-192115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
345 PM CDT SUN AUG 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 343 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR OPP...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL MOVE OVER...
  EASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE OPP AREA.

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 3128 8639 3116 8624 3140 8591 3156 8610

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 19, 12:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	53 min
Aug 19, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	60 min
Aug 19, 1:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	60 min
Aug 19, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington	48 min
Aug 19, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	44 min
Aug 19, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	25 min
Aug 19, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	22 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.