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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Mobile, AL

May 13, 2000Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 5:08 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 13, 2000, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Covington County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Andalusia, AL	Wind speeds of about 60 mph were reported just south of Andalusia. Trees and power lines were blown down.
May 13, 5:10 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Andalusia, AL	Golfball sized hail was reported just south of Andalusia.

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 nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 216 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 878 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 771 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

127 
WUUS54 KMOB 132208
SVRMOB
ALC039-132245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
508 PM CDT SAT MAY 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 508 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF ANDALUSIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FLORALA AT 540 PM CDT

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.

LAT...LON 3136 8643 3123 8658 3094 8629 3110 8610

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 13, 1:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	55 min
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, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	28 min
May 13, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	45 min

Nearby

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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.