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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2000, 11:01 PM CST for Marengo County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 9, 2000, 11:01 PM CST (05:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2000, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marengo County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 11:05 PM CST | Tornado F1 | Dixons Mills, AL | A tornado was reported first touching down just inside the Marengo County line about 3 miles south of Dixons Mills. The storm then crossed U. S. Highway 43 about 2.5 miles south of Dixons Mills . Storm track was northeast...crossing County Road 37 and then a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 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 100500 SVRMOB ALC091-100600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1101 PM CST SUN JAN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MARENGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST * AT 1059 PM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES SOUTH OF LINDEN OR 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MAGNOLIA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH THE VICINITY OF - MAGNOLIA BY 1115 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... LARGE 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 AREAS 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, 10:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 51 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.