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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Mobile, AL

July 11, 2000Conecuh County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 6:05 PM CDT for Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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: Jul 11, 2000, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Conecuh County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 11, 6:15 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Castleberry, AL	A restaurant, near the intersection of Highway 31 and County Road 6, was damaged by fallen trees as thunderstorms moved through the area.

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

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 2813 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 112306
SVRMOB
ALC035-112330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
605 PM CDT TUE JUL 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CONECUH COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF EVERGREEN

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF CASTLEBERRY...OR ABOUT 10   
MILES WEST OF EVERGREEN...NEARLY STATIONARY.

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
Jul 11, 4:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	35 min
Jul 11, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	30 min
Jul 11, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler	33 min
Jul 11, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	27 min
Jul 11, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	35 min
Jul 11, 6:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	26 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.