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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 1:10 PM CDT for Escambia County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 13, 2001, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 1:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Mc Cullough, AL | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees in the McCullough area. |
| Oct 13, 1:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Goodway, AL | High winds from a thunderstorm blew several trees down and turned over a travel trailer near Goodway. |
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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
358 WFUS54 KMOB 131810 TORMOB ALC053-099-131845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 110 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 110 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOONEVILLE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... HOMEWOOD...ELISKA BY 115 PM CDT MEGARGEL...US 29 AND CR 43 BY 120 PM CDT MANISTEE BY 125 PM CDT PERDUE HILL BY 130 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.
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, 12:21 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, 1:18 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.