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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 341, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 5:22 PM CST for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 16, 2000, 5:22 PM CST (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Covington County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 5:42 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Gantt, AL | Dime size hail was reported near Gantt. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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 162323 SVRMOB ALC039-170000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 522 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 600 PM CST * AT 522 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF RIVER FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RIVER FALLS BY AND ANDULUSIA 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 3140 8665 3129 8663 3121 8631 3142 8632
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, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.