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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 246, NWS Mobile, AL

August 10, 2000Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2000, 4:05 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 55 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, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 192 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 102105
SVRMOB
ALC003-102200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 405 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SPANISH
  FORT TO LOXLEY...OR FROM 4 MILES EAST OF CHICKASAW TO 10 MILES EAST
  OF DAPHNE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ABOUT...
  OVER DAPHNE AT 415 PM CDT
  OVER FOLEY AT 425 PM CDT
  OVER FAIRHOPE AT 430 PM CDT
  OVER POINT CLEAR AT 440 PM CDT

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 
MPH.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MO2BILE.

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, 3:24 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, 4:39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.