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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2000, 10:39 PM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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
- Jan 9, 2000, 10:39 PM CST (04:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2000, 11:30 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Choctaw 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 100438 SVRMOB ALC023-100530- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1039 PM CST SUN JAN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 1130 PM CST * AT 1035 PM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GILBERTOWN OR 7 MILES WEST OF AQUILLA... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH THE VICINITY OF - SILAS BY 1105 PM CST BOLINGER BY 1105 PM CST CULLOMBURG BY 1110 PM CST BLADON SPRINGS BY 1120 PM CST WOMACK HILL BY 1130 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... DEADLY LIGHTNING... AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DONT DRIVE INTO AREASh WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 9:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Marengo | 75 min |
| Jan 9, 9:31 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 119 min |
| Jan 9, 11:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 59 min |
| Jan 9, 11:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 2 hr |
| Jan 9, 11:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 43 min |
| Jan 9, 11:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 53 min |
| Jan 10, 12:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 36 min |
| Jan 10, 12:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 63 min |
| Jan 10, 12:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Monroe | 50 min |
| Jan 10, 12:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 40 min |
| Jan 10, 1:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 43 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.