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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL

January 9, 2000Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2000, 11:32 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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, 11:32 PM CST (05:32 UTC)
Expired
Jan 10, 2000, 12:15 AM CST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Wilcox County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 9, 10:00 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-01-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 395 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 00:00Z on 2000-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 127 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 100531
SVRMOB
ALC131-100615-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1132 PM CST SUN JAN 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1215 AM CST

* AT 1131 PM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAMDEN OR 1 MILE
  NORTHEAST OF GASTONBURG... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MAINLY OVER RURAL AREAS.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE ORL NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 9, 9:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw, Marengo75 min
Jan 9, 9:31 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBChoctaw119 min
Jan 9, 10:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBChoctaw51 min
Jan 9, 11:01 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMarengo59 min
Jan 9, 11:30 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBChoctaw2 hr
Jan 9, 11:52 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler53 min
Jan 10, 12:24 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile, Washington36 min
Jan 10, 12:27 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke63 min
Jan 10, 12:40 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin, Monroe50 min
Jan 10, 12:50 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin40 min
Jan 10, 1:17 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBConecuh43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.