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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Mobile, AL

March 11, 2000Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2000, 10:37 AM CST for 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: Mar 11, 2000, 10:37 AM CST (16:37 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2000, 11:00 AM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 642 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 111638
SVRMOB
ALC053-111700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1037 AM CST SAT MAR 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1100 AM CST

* AT 1037 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES EAST OF EAST BREWTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

LARGE HAIL IS THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THIS STORM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MOBILE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Marengo	30 min
Mar 10, 9:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	46 min
Mar 10, 9:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	23 min
Mar 10, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	31 min
Mar 11, 4:36 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	24 min
Mar 11, 6:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	36 min
Mar 11, 10:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	26 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.