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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 273, NWS Mobile, AL

August 25, 2000Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2000, 2:51 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 54 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 25, 2000, 2:51 PM CDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Monroe County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 25, 3:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Goodway, AL	Local law enforcement reported very high winds, small hail, and several trees blown down in and around the community as strong thunderstorms moved through the area.

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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 251952
SVRMOB
ALC099-252045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
251 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...MONROE COUNTY

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 251 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF FRISCO CITY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  WEST OF MONROEVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 3146 8723 3183 8708 3181 8750 3126 8755

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 3:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	57 min
Aug 25, 3:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	64 min
Aug 25, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	62 min
Aug 25, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	58 min
Aug 25, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	42 min
Aug 25, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.