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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 2:53 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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
- Oct 13, 2001, 2:53 PM CDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Monroe County, AL
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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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.
230 WFUS54 KMOB 131954 TORMOB ALC099-132030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 253 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 250 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES EAST OF CLAIBORNE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... KEITH BY 300 PM CDT FRANKLIN...RIVER RIDGE BY 305 PM CDT PACKARDS BEND BY 310 PM CDT TINELA...BUENA VISTA BY 315 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 3153 8761 3148 8740 3182 8724 3181 8748
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, 2:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.