Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 288, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2000, 3:16 PM CDT for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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 27, 2000, 3:16 PM CDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2000, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 3:55 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Georgiana, AL | Dime sized hail was reported near the community as a thunderstorm moved through. |
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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 272018 SVRMOB ALC013-272100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 316 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 316 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY TO THE EAST OF MCKENZIE. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 5 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ABOUT... 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREENVILLE AT 400 PM CDT JUST EAST OF MCKENZIE THROUGH 340 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 NATIOzNAL 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 27, 12:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 35 min |
| 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, 3:24 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.