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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Mobile, AL

July 11, 2000Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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: Jul 11, 2000, 6:49 PM CDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 11, 2000, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Escambia County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 96 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 112350
SVRMOB
TTAA00 KBHM 112349

ALC053-120015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BREWTON...EAST BREWTON

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 649 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF BREWTON...MOVING SOUTH AT
  5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHEAST OF EAST BREWTON...6 MILES EAST OF BREWTON AT 715
  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 3126 8683 3126 8727 3101 872N7 3101 8674

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, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	25 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

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.