Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 299, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 27, 2000, 6:08 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 2000, 6:08 PM CDT (23:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1320 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 272309 SVRMOB ALC003-272345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 608 PM CDT SUN AUG 27 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 608 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF BAY MINETTE...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR BAY MINETTE AT 620 PM CDT AND NEAR LOXLEY AND SPANISH FORT AROUND 640 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.
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, 3:16 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 |
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.