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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 327, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 9, 2000, 2:52 AM CST for Santa Rosa County, Florida; Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 23 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
- Nov 9, 2000, 2:52 AM CST (08:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 3:15 AM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Escambia County, AL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 1397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 483 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 320 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 12.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMOB 090854
SVRMOB
ALC053-FLC113-090915-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
252 AM CST THU NOV 9 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
* UNTIL 315 AM CST
* AT 252 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR EAST BREWTON TO NEAR JAY TO 3
MILES EAST OF CHUMUCKLA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
CAMP WILLIAMS AND PARKER SPRINGS IN ESCAMBIA ALABAMA BY 310 AM CST
MCLELLAN...MUNSON AND SPRING HILL IN SANTA ROSA FLORIDA BY 315 AM CST
STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH
THESE STORMS. IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER IN A
STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
LAT...LON 3115 8721 3075 8722 30{76 8679 3116 8678The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 2:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 26 min |
| Nov 9, 1:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 35 min |
| Nov 9, 3:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 23 min |
| Nov 9, 3:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 36 min |
| Nov 9, 3:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 36 min |
| Nov 9, 4:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.