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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Mobile, AL

March 19, 2000Conecuh County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2000, 4:35 PM CST for Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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: Mar 19, 2000, 4:35 PM CST (22:35 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Conecuh 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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 192235
SVRMOB
ALC035-192300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CST

* AT 435 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF CASTLEBERRY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  NORTH OF BREWTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EVERGREEN AT 450 PM CST

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

LAT...LON 3129 8720 3127 8704 3136 8671 3158 8691

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, 3:09 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	36 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

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.