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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2001Washington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 2:31 PM CST for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 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: Nov 24, 2001, 2:31 PM CST (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 3:30 PM CST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Washington 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
Nov 24, 9:30 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Nov 24, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1625 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 284 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 12.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 242033
TORMOB
ALC129-242130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
231 PM CST SAT NOV 24 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM CST

* AT 230 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ESCATAWPA OVER GREENE COUNTY         
  MISSISSIPPI.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH TOWARD     
  WESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  ESCATAWPA...FRUITDALE BY 245 PM CST
  VINEGAR BEND...YELLOW PINE BY 250 PM CST
  TIBBIE BY 300 PM CST
  CHATOM BY 310 PM CST

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 3142 8845 3115 8844 3130 8823 3145 8822
          3152 8832

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 10:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	33 min
Nov 24, 11:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	35 min
Nov 24, 12:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	29 min
Nov 24, 12:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Washington	38 min
Nov 24, 1:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke	45 min
Nov 24, 1:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	30 min
Nov 24, 2:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	61 min
Nov 24, 3:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	60 min
Nov 24, 3:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	58 min
Nov 24, 3:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	49 min
Nov 24, 4:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	33 min
Nov 24, 4:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler	45 min
Nov 24, 4:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	26 min
Nov 24, 4:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh	35 min
Nov 24, 5:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	38 min
Nov 24, 5:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler	30 min
Nov 24, 5:43 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		107 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.