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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 803

October 24, 200119 counties in Alabama; Dade County, Georgia; 24 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Oct 24, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT for 19 counties in Alabama; Dade County, Georgia; 24 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Oct 24, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Oct 25, 2001, 1:00 AM CDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties

Blount County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Dade County, GA, Attala County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

Warnings issued inside it

29 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert44 min
Oct 24, 8:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGLee40 min
Oct 24, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLauderdale48 min
Oct 24, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANCarroll45 min
Oct 24, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin44 min
Oct 24, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone41 min
Oct 24, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXColbert38 min
Oct 24, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANMontgomery, Webster43 min
Oct 24, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEGItawamba, Monroe40 min
Oct 24, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence38 min
Oct 24, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMarion46 min
Oct 24, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone35 min
Oct 24, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANClay, Oktibbeha47 min
Oct 24, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANChoctaw47 min
Oct 24, 9:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXFranklin25 min
Oct 24, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXMadison, Morgan53 min
Oct 24, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXWinston53 min
Oct 24, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLawrence17 min
Oct 24, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXLimestone19 min
Oct 24, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANLowndes33 min
Oct 24, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCullman39 min
Oct 24, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANAttala, Choctaw, Winston39 min
Oct 24, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXJackson51 min
Oct 24, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANKemper, Neshoba45 min
Oct 24, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXBlount49 min
Oct 24, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMXCullman23 min
Oct 24, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANNoxubee23 min
Oct 24, 10:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFCDade35 min
Oct 24, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJANKemper, Noxubee48 min

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2001-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2001-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -115 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, DeKalb, Etowah and 4 more6 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Georgia, 2001Every severe thunderstorm watch in 2001

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.