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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Mobile, AL

March 19, 2000Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2000, 3:09 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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 19, 2000, 3:09 PM CST (21:09 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2000, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Wilcox County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 19, 12:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 562 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 746 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 192110
SVRMOB
ALC131-192145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
309 PM CST SUN MAR 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM CST

* AT 309 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
ANOTHER DEVELOPING SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WEST CENTRAL WILCOX 
COUNTY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF THOMASVILLE...MOVING NORTH 
AT 20 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR
ALABAMA AND FLORIDA.

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 WEATH)ER 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 19, 4:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	44 min
Mar 19, 5:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	60 min
Mar 19, 7:53 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	52 min
Mar 19, 1:15 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Clarke	2 hr
Mar 19, 2:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	27 min
Mar 19, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	25 min
Mar 19, 5:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	27 min
Mar 19, 5:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	34 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.