Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 2:24 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
- Aug 10, 2000, 2:24 PM CDT (19:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 101925 SVRMOB ALC053-102000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 224 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY...OR JUST NORTH OF WALLACE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING SOUTHWEST ALONG I-65... 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 26 min |
| Aug 10, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 26 min |
| Aug 10, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 32 min |
| Aug 10, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 36 min |
| Aug 10, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 52 min |
| Aug 10, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 49 min |
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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.