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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 7:22 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports 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
- Oct 13, 2001, 7:22 AM CDT (12:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Baldwin County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 7:30 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Fairhope, AL | An F1 tornado touched down for a short time near Fairhope. The tornado caused major damage to a warehouse roof and two large metal doors were blown in. Several trees and a fence were also blown down. |
| Oct 13, 7:35 AM CDT | Tornado F0 | Montrose, AL | An F0 tornado briefly touched down along U. S. Highway 98 near Montrose. The tornado blew several trees down. |
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1483 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
299 WFUS54 KMOB 131222 TORMOB ALC003-131300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 722 AM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 800 AM CDT * AT 718 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER FAIRHOPE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... JACKSON OAK...PARK CITY BY 730 AM CDT SPANISH FORT...BRIDGEHEAD BY 735 AM CDT STEELWOOD BY 740 AM CDT STAPLETON BY 745 AM 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 3047 8800 3046 8779 3089 8774 3090 8801
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 11:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Oct 13, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 31 min |
| Oct 13, 12:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 24 min |
| Oct 13, 12:24 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 51 min | |
| Oct 13, 12:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 12:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Oct 13, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Monroe | 35 min |
| Oct 13, 1:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 27 min |
| Oct 13, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Oct 13, 2:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 37 min |
| Oct 13, 3:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 22 min |
| Oct 13, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 23 min |
| Oct 13, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 59 min |
| Oct 13, 5:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 59 min |
| Oct 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Oct 13, 6:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Oct 13, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 43 min |
| Oct 13, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 23 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.