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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2001Greene County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 3:30 PM CST for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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, 3:30 PM CST (21:30 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Greene County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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.

814 
WFUS54 KMOB 242131
TORMOB
MSC041-242200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 330 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF VERNAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LEAKESVILLE BY 335 PM CST
  PISGAH BY 340 PM CST
  ROUNSAVILLE BY 345 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.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE
IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

LAT...LON 3112 8875 3100 8869 3101 8843 3131 8846

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 10:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry, Wayne	26 min
Nov 24, 11:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	36 min
Nov 24, 12:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry	21 min
Nov 24, 12:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	38 min
Nov 24, 1:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry, Stone	30 min
Nov 24, 1:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene	30 min
Nov 24, 1:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	31 min
Nov 24, 2:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Stone	27 min
Nov 24, 2:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene	35 min
Nov 24, 2:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	George, Stone	31 min
Nov 24, 2:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene	34 min
Nov 24, 3:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	31 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.