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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 340, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 4:50 PM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 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
- Dec 16, 2000, 4:50 PM CST (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Escambia County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Dec 16, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 563 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 162252 SVRMOB ALC053-FLC033-113-162330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL...CORRECTED FOR SOUTHWEST AL... 450 PM CST SAT DEC 16 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 530 PM CST * AT 450 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF MCDAVID...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CENTURY BY 455 PM CST OSAKA...WAHL BY 500 PM CST POLLARD...JAY BY 505 PM CST ALLENTOWN BY 515 PM CST BERRYDALE BY 520 PM CST ROBERTS...MCLELLAN...ROCK HILL BY 530 PM 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 3102 8744 3084 8740 3069 8687 3122 8686
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 1:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 51 min |
| Dec 16, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 51 min |
| Dec 16, 2:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 23 min |
| Dec 16, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Dec 16, 4:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 28 min |
| Dec 16, 4:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe | 29 min |
| Dec 16, 5:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 38 min |
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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.