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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Mobile, AL

July 22, 2000Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2000, 3:22 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2000, 3:22 PM CDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1263 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

704 
WUUS54 KMOB 222024
SVRMOB
ALC053-222045-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 322 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES WEST OF BREWTON...OR ABOUT 12 MILES   
  NORTH OF ATMORE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.  A SECOND SEVERE STORM    
  WAS LOCATED IN THE VICINITY OF BREWTON.

* THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.  

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 3128 8749 3111 8753 3100 8705 3122 8700

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	46 min
Jul 22, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	27 min
Jul 22, 1:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	61 min
Jul 22, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	64 min
Jul 22, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	24 min
Jul 22, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	44 min
Jul 22, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	62 min
Jul 22, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.