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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 314, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2000, 5:40 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 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
- Sep 2, 2000, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2000, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 823 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
368 WUUS54 KMOB 022240 SVRMOB ALC097-022345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 540 PM CDT SAT SEP 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...GRAND BAY...PRICHARD...THEODORE... TILLMANS CORNER * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 540 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRICHARD...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... PRICHARD BY 545 PM CDT TILLMANS CORNER BY 615 PM CDT THEODORE BY 620 PM CDT GRAND BAY BY 640 PM CDT BAYOU LA BATRE BY 645 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. LAT...LON 3090 8813 3093 8834 3034 8851 3029 8820
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.