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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Mobile, AL

October 13, 2001Escambia County, Alabama; Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 3:08 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama; Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 22 min. 4 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, 3:08 PM CDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2001, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Escambia County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 13, 3:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 75 E	Gulf Breeze, FL	High thunderstorm winds blew down a large scoreboard at Gulf Breeze High School. Several trees were also blown down, and a few light weight structures were also damaged.
Oct 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Atmore, AL	Trees were blown down east of the community as thunderstorms moved through the area.
Oct 13, 3:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Paradise Beach, FL	High thunderstorm winds downed trees near the community.
Oct 13, 3:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Brewton, AL	Trees down in the Brewton area.

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, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 250 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.

719 
WFUS54 KMOB 132009
TORMOB
ALC053-FLC033-113-132030-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
  SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 308 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR 
INDICATED...AND THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO OVER GULF BREEZE. 
ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM...WITH A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO...WAS 
LOCATED 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHUMUCKLA.  MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS 
NORTH AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE GULF BREEZE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PENSACOLA REGIONAL AIRPORT...GOULDING BY 310 PM CDT
  FERRY PASS BY 315 PM CDT
  MULAT...AVALON BEACH BY 320 PM CDT
  PACE...GONZALEZ BY 325 PM CDT
  THE CHUMUCKLA TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE FLOMATON AND BREWTON AREAS.
  
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 SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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, 2:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe	37 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
Oct 13, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	30 min
Oct 13, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	20 min
Oct 13, 2:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	28 min
Oct 13, 3:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	27 min
Oct 13, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	45 min
Oct 13, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	52 min
Oct 13, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	50 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.