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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2001Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2001, 8:00 PM CST for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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, 8:00 PM CST (02:00 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2001, 8:45 PM CST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Covington County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 24, 8:30 PM CST	Tornado F0	Rose Hill, AL	A weak tornado produced a path of damage to trees in a wooded area southwest through south of the community.

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, 5:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.

416 
WFUS54 KMOB 250201
TORMOB
ALC039-250245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 800 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
TORNADO OVER RIVER FALLS AND ANDALUSIA...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 
MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR THE TOWNS OF...
  HEATH...ROSE HILL...EODA DURING THE NEXT 30 MINUTES. 

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 3137 8663 3124 8648 3134 8625 3150 8626

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, 7:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler	26 min
Nov 24, 7:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	32 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

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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.