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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Mobile, AL

August 9, 2000Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 5:07 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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: Aug 9, 2000, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baldwin County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 1084 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -25 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.

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 092208
SVRMOB
ALC003-092245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
507 PM CDT WED AUG 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 507 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES EAST OF FOLEY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY AT 520 PM CDT

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 3026 8773 3044 8742 3072 8749 3070 8792

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 9, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Marengo	56 min
Aug 9, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	34 min
Aug 9, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	30 min
Aug 9, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	46 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.