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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Mobile, AL

October 13, 2001Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 3:44 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 16 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, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2001, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Wayne County, MS

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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 425 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

014 
WFUS54 KMOB 132045
TORMOB
MSC153-132100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 400 PM CDT

* AT 340 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING NORTH AT 55
  MPH.  THIS TORNADO WILL AFFECT THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HIWANNEE BY 350 PM CDT
  MATHERVILLE 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 3163 8879 3158 8859 3187 8851 3183 8873

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry, Stone	61 min
Oct 13, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	61 min
Oct 13, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Wayne	59 min
Oct 13, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Perry, Stone	59 min
Oct 13, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	59 min
Oct 13, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Perry, Stone	59 min
Oct 13, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	43 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.