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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 3:24 PM CDT for Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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, 3:24 PM CDT (20:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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, 3:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Citronelle, AL | Trees were blown down in the community by thunderstorm winds. |
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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 102025 SVRMOB ALC097-129-102100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 324 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN ALABAMA WASHINGTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 324 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CITRONELLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT... 5 MILES EAST OF CITRONELLE AT 345 PM CDT 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 3123 8801 3128 8821 3095 8834 3089 8809
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, 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, 3:53 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.