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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2001Butler County, Conecuh County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 4:40 PM CST for Butler County, Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 24, 2001, 4:40 PM CST (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 24, 4:58 PM CST	Hail 1	Georgiana, AL
Nov 24, 5:08 PM CST	Tornado F0	Georgiana, AL	A weak tornado moved nearly 3 miles across mostly wooded areas to the west of Georgiana. Most of the damage along the path of the tornado was to trees. The tornado first touched down near County Road 16 near Panther Creek. From there the tornado moved nort

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
Nov 24, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 449 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 329 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 315 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

121 
WFUS54 KMOB 242240
TORMOB
ALC013-035-242315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 515 PM CST

* AT 434 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF I65 AND CR 29...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  GEORGIANA...I65 AND AL 106 BY 450 PM CST
  AVANT...CHAPMAN BY 455 PM CST
  BOLLING BY 500 PM CST
  WALD BY 505 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 3155 8703 3143 8688 3166 8654 3183 8674

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, 2:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	59 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.