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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2001Butler County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 7:49 PM CST for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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, 7:49 PM CST (01:49 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Butler 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, 2:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 1498 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 341 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 429 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.1
Supercell composite: 12.7

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The text

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

380 
WFUS54 KMOB 250149
TORMOB
ALC013-250215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 749 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER EAST CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  EASTERN BUTLER COUNTY.

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 3177 8668 3165 8653 3171 8645 3197 8646

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 6:21 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler	39 min
Nov 24, 6:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	34 min
Nov 24, 6:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler	49 min
Nov 24, 6:56 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	49 min
Nov 24, 7:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	46 min
Nov 24, 7:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw, Monroe	3 hr
Nov 24, 7:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington	41 min
Nov 24, 7:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	43 min
Nov 24, 7:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	32 min
Nov 24, 8:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	45 min
Nov 24, 8:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	30 min
Nov 24, 8:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	29 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.