Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 8:37 PM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 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 3, 2000, 8:37 PM CST (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Choctaw 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 3, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1234 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.4
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 040241 SVRMOB ALC023-040330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 837 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 930 PM CST * AT 836 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUTLER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF QUITMAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUTLER AT 900 PM CST IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 12:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 38 min |
| Jan 4, 12:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 48 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.