Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 13, 2000, 10:25 PM CST for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 13, 2000, 10:25 PM CST (04:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2000, 11:00 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Covington County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 10:30 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Heath, AL | Dime size hail was reported five miles north of Heath. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 779 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 446 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 561 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 15.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 140429 SVRMOB ALC039-140500- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1025 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COVINGTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 1100 PM CST * AT 1025 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF OPP...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANDALUSIA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OPP AT 1030 PM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 8:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 31 min |
| Feb 13, 10:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 36 min |
| Feb 13, 10:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 51 min |
| Feb 13, 11:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 27 min |
| Feb 13, 11:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 31 min |
| Feb 14, 12:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 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.