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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Mobile, AL

May 13, 2000Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 6:00 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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, 6:00 PM CDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired: May 13, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Monroe County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -3.1

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The text

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

456 
WUUS54 KMOB 132302
SVRMOB
ALC099-132345-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 600 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED 
TO INDICATE A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MONROEVILLE WHICH 
WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY EASTWARD.  LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE 
STORMS.  

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.  LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS 
STORM.

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, 1:20 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, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	37 min
May 13, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2000 Every 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.