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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 277, NWS Mobile, AL

August 25, 2000Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2000, 3:58 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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: Aug 25, 2000, 3:58 PM CDT (20:58 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Santa Rosa County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 25, 4:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Jay, FL	High thunderstorm winds damaged a barn and downed trees and power lines throughout the community.

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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 601 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1204 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 252103 COR
SVRMOB
FLC113-252200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECT HEADING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
358 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN THE WEST
  FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 358 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 27 MILES NORTH OF MILTON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF EAST BREWTON.  THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT JAY THROUGH 415 PM AND
  ALLENTOWN BY 430 PM.

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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	62 min
Aug 25, 5:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	40 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.