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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 333, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2000, 11:44 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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 24, 2000, 11:44 AM CST (17:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2000, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 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 24, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 552 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 241745 SVRMOB ALC097-241815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1144 AM CST FRI NOV 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 1215 PM CST * AT 1144 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER TANNER WILLIAMS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SEMMES...WILMER BY 1150 AM CST LOTT AND COLEMAN DAIRY ROADS BY 1155 AM CST OAK GROVE BY NOON CST 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 3071 8844 3064 8836 3090 8811 3101 8827
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 9:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| Nov 24, 10:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 10:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 16 min |
| Nov 24, 11:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 11:12 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 48 min |
| Nov 24, 1:08 PM CST | Tornado 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.