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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL

January 10, 2000Baldwin County, Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 10, 2000, 12:40 AM CST for Baldwin County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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: Jan 10, 2000, 12:40 AM CST (06:40 UTC)
Expired: Jan 10, 2000, 1:30 AM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Monroe County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 10, 1:00 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Tensaw, AL	Trees and power lines were blown down near Tensaw.

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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 9, 10:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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: 369 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 919 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 100642
SVRMOB
ALC003-099-100730-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1240 AM CST MON JAN 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 130 AM CST

* AT 1236 AM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A LINE OF SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CLAIBORNE IN WEST CENTRAL MONROE
  COUNTY TO BUCKS IN NORTHEAST MOBILE COUNTY.  THE THUNDERSTORMS IN
  THE LINE WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE TO NEAR A MIDWAY TO BAY MINNETE
  LINE BY 120 AM.

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

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 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 DONT
DRIVE fINTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 9:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Marengo	75 min
Jan 9, 9:31 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw	119 min
Jan 9, 10:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	51 min
Jan 9, 11:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Marengo	59 min
Jan 9, 11:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw	2 hr
Jan 9, 11:32 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	43 min
Jan 9, 11:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler	53 min
Jan 10, 12:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	36 min
Jan 10, 12:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	63 min
Jan 10, 12:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	40 min
Jan 10, 1:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	43 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.