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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL

October 13, 2001Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 2:34 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 26 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, 2:45 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Spanish Ft, AL	An F0 tornado touched down along the eastern portions of Meaher Park on the Causeway just west of Spanish Fort. The tornado jumped across the Causeway and touched down in the Pineda Island subdivision. Several trees were damaged along the tornado path.

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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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.

143 
WFUS54 KMOB 131934
TORMOB
ALC003-132000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 228 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM NEAR MONTROSE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  STAPLETON BY 245 PM CDT
  CROSSROADS...HURRICANE BY 250 PM CDT
  CARPENTER...DOUGLASVILLE BY 255 PM CDT
  I65 AND AL 225...I65 AND AL 59 BY 300 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 3053 8805 3051 8784 3100 8773 3101 8791

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, 1:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	27 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.