Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 10, 2000, 1:17 AM CST for Conecuh 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 10, 2000, 1:17 AM CST (07:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2000, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Conecuh County, AL
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 |
| Jan 10, 1:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 100719 SVRMOB ALC035-100800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 117 AM CST MON JAN 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA * UNTIL 200 AM CST * AT 116 AM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 19 MILES WEST OF CASTLEBERRY OR 6 MILES WEST OF RANGE... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH THE VICINITY OF - RANGE BY 120 AM CST LENOX BY 125 AM CST REPTON BY 130 AM CST BERMUDA BY 140 AM CST BELLEVILLE BY 140 AM CST 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 INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. P
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, 12:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Monroe | 50 min |
| Jan 10, 12:50 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 40 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.