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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL

February 16, 2001Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 16, 2001, 4:17 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 28 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: Feb 16, 2001, 4:17 PM CST (22:17 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2001, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wayne County, MS

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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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.

354 
WFUS54 KMOB 162218
TORMOB
MSC153-162245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 445 PM CST

* AT 416 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUCUTTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  EUCUTTA BY 430 PM CST
  HIWANNEE BY 440 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 3174 8927 3161 8912 3188 8849 3184 8883

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 16, 4:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry, Wayne	49 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2001 Every tornado warning in 2001 Tornadoes in 2001

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.