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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 282, NWS Mobile, AL

August 25, 2000Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2000, 5:48 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2000, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Mobile County, AL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Bucks, AL	A thunderstorm produced golfball sized hail in 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 252253
SVRMOB
ALC097-252330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
548 PM CDT FRI AUG 25 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 548 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF CREOLA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES
  NORTH OF SATSUMA...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING NEAR THE AREAS OF
  BUCKS...CHUNCHULA...SEMMES AND PRICHARD DURING THE NEXT
  HOUR.

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 QUICK`LY 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, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	54 min
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, 5:52 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.