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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 284, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2000, 12:25 PM CDT for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2000, 12:25 PM CDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Crenshaw County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 289 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1765 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 271730 COR SVRMOB ALC041-271800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED TSTM WATCH SENTENCE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1225 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 100 PM CDT * AT 1225 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF PETREY...OR ABOUT 17 MILES NORTH OF LUVERNE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF HIGHLAND HOME...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ABOUT... 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF PETREY AT 1240 PM CDT 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3207 8618 3196 8635 3172 8617 3186 8596
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 40 min |
| Aug 27, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 44 min |
| Aug 27, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 66 min |
| Aug 27, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 39 min |
| Aug 27, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 52 min |
| Aug 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Aug 27, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 31 min |
| Aug 27, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 32 min |
| Aug 27, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 25 min |
| Aug 27, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 28 min |
| Aug 27, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 37 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.