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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Mobile, AL

April 24, 2000Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 10:45 AM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 2000, 10:45 AM CDT (15:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2000, 11:15 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2000-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 115 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2000-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 369 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
369 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
443 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 241547
SVRMOB
ALC053-241615-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1045 AM CDT MON APR 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS REISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1115 AM CDT

* AT 1045 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11
  MILES EAST OF EAST BREWTON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL
  BE NEAR CAMP WILLIAMS AND PARKER SPRING BY 1100 AM CDT. 

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MOBILE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 3:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile48 min
Apr 24, 4:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin46 min
Apr 24, 9:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin, Mobile62 min
Apr 24, 10:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia40 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.