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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 240, NWS Mobile, AL

August 10, 2000Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 2:46 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 2000, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 10, 3:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Elsanor, AL	Several large limbs were blown from trees, and some tree tops were snapped off as thunderstorms moved through the area just to the west of the community. Most of the wind damage was located just east of County Road 83.

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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 989 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1197 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 101947
SVRMOB
ALC003-102030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
246 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 246 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES EAST OF ROBERTSDALE...OR ABOUT 10
  MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLVIEW...MOVING WEST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  NEAR ROBERTSDALE AT 305 PM CDT
  NEAR LOXLEY AT 310 PM CDT
  NEAR FAIRHOPE AT 325 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.

RE!PORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MOBILE.

LAT...LON 3045 8750 3063 8746 3077 8787 3041 8789

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, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	36 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

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.