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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 1:18 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min. 3 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, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 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, 1:25 PM CDT | Tornado F3 | Foley, AL | An F3 tornado initially touched down just south of the Grove Home Park on County Road 16. The tornado then tracked north just east of County Road 65 to County Road 12, just southwest of Foley. The tornado blew down numerous trees, destroyed a manufactured ho |
| Oct 13, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Foley, AL | Another tornado briefly touched down, about 20 minutes after the first one, near the Grove Home Park. The F0 blew down several trees and a large fence near the Park along County Road 65. |
| Oct 13, 1:44 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Robertsdale, AL | An F2 tornado touched down southeast of Robertsdale. The tornado first touched down just south of County Road 83 and Hubard road intersection where it tracked north and damaged seventeen manufactured homes and completely destroyed three others. Several larg |
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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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.
811 WFUS54 KMOB 131833 TORMOB ALC003-131845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...RETRANSMIT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 118 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 118 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF GULF SHORES...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. RADAR ALSO INDICATED ANOTHER TORNADO PRODUCING STORM ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF LOXLEY AND MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADIC STORM NORTHWEST OF GULFSHORES WILL BE NEAR... FOLEY AND MARLOW BY 125 PM CDT SUMMERDALE BY 130 PM CDT SILVERHILL BY 135 PM CDT AND THE TORNADIC STORM NORTH OF LOXLEY WILL BE NEAR... 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. LAT...LON 3025 8784 3023 8763 3070 8753 3073 8778
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, 1:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Monroe | 35 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 |
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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.