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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Mobile, AL

July 22, 2000Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 1:59 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 min. 2 reports 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 22, 2000, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 22, 2:55 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 55 ETillmans Corner, AL
Jul 22, 2:55 PM CDTHail 0.75Tillmans Corner, AL

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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2327 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2327 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
754 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-30 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.

190 
WUUS54 KMOB 221900
SVRMOB
ALC097-222000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
159 PM CDT SAT JUL 22 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MOBILE COUNTY IN ALABAMA
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...CHICKASAW...MOBILE...PRICHARD...
  SARALAND...SATSUMA...THEODORE...TILLMANS CORNER

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 159 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 16 MILES EAST OF CITRONELLE TO 
  14 MILES NORTHWEST OF TILLMANS CORNER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  OVER CREOLA...PRICHARD...SARALAND...SATSUMA AT 210 PM CDT
  OVER CHICKASAW AT 220 PM CDT
  OVER MOBILE...TILLMANS CORNER AT 225 PM CDT
  OVER THEODORE AT 235 PM CDT

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING 
WINDS.  

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile46 min
Jul 22, 1:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWashington27 min
Jul 22, 2:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin64 min
Jul 22, 3:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile24 min
Jul 22, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia23 min
Jul 22, 3:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCovington44 min
Jul 22, 3:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile62 min
Jul 22, 3:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBEscambia42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.