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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL

October 13, 2001Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 12:21 PM CDT for Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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: Oct 13, 2001, 12:21 PM CDT (17:21 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2001, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 13, 12:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Wagarville, AL	Trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm winds near Wagarville.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 13, 12:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

916 
WFUS54 KMOB 131721
TORMOB
ALC025-129-131745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1221 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1245 PM CDT

* AT 1214 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR HAWTHORN...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PRESTWICK...CARSON BY 1230 PM CDT
  ST STEPHENS...LEROY BY 1235 PM CDT
  WINN BY 1245 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 3132 8822 3126 8803 3173 8779 3181 8804

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 7:22 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	38 min
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, 12:24 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.