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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 322, NWS Mobile, AL

November 8, 2000George County, Mississippi; Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 2000, 10:36 AM CST for George County, Mississippi; Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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: Nov 8, 2000, 10:36 AM CST (16:36 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 11:15 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 081639
SVRMOB
ALC097-MSC039-081715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1036 AM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1115 AM CST

* AT 1036 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF AGRICOLA                  
  MISSISSIPPI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...         
  NORTHEASTERN GEORGE AND NORTHWESTERN MOBILE   COUNTIES.

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH
THIS STORM.  IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY
SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3078 8869 3074 8842 3111 8806 3116 8835
          3099 8844

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 10:49 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	26 min
Nov 8, 11:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	26 min
Nov 8, 11:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	29 min
Nov 8, 11:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	33 min
Nov 8, 12:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	39 min
Nov 8, 12:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	38 min
Nov 8, 12:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	48 min
Nov 8, 12:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	30 min
Nov 8, 1:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	46 min
Nov 8, 1:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Marengo, Wilcox	44 min
Nov 8, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	28 min
Nov 8, 2:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	28 min
Nov 8, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2000 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2000 Every 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.