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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Mobile, AL

October 13, 2001Escambia County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 3:33 PM CDT for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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, 3:33 PM CDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired
Oct 13, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Escambia County, FL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Oct 13, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 226 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2001-10-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1483 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2001-10-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 223 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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.

137 
WFUS54 KMOB 132034
TORMOB
FLC033-132100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 328 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF MYRTLE GROVE...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ENSLEY BY 345 PM CDT
  GONZALEZ BY 350 PM CDT
  COTTAGE HILL...CANTONMENT BY 355 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 3037 8742 3035 8731 3070 8725 3072 8739
          3045 8739

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 13, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa30 min
Oct 13, 2:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa20 min
Oct 13, 2:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa28 min
Oct 13, 3:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa22 min
Oct 13, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa45 min
Oct 13, 5:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa52 min
Oct 13, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia50 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.