Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 1:20 PM CDT for Washington County, Alabama; Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 55 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
- May 13, 2000, 1:20 PM CDT (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Washington County, AL, Greene County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 1609 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 820 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
071 WUUS54 KMOB 131823 SVRMOB ALC129-MSC041-131915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 120 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI WASHINGTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 120 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 28 MILES WEST OF MCINTOSH...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF CITRONELLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MCINTOSH AT 215 PM CDT * ANOTHER DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWESTERN GREENE COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF MCLAIN. THIS STORM IS ALSO MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH...AND WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY THROUGH 215 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 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 DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 34 min |
| May 13, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 31 min |
| May 13, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 28 min |
| May 13, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 25 min |
| May 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington | 30 min |
| May 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 52 min |
| May 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 37 min |
| May 13, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 28 min |
| May 13, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 45 min |
| May 13, 1:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 54 min |
| May 13, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 56 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.