Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2000, 2:01 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2000, 2:01 PM CST (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2000, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:15 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Perdido, AL | Nickle size hail was reported in community. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 1:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 292002 SVRMOB ALC003-292100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 201 PM CST WED MAR 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 300 PM CST * AT 201 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAY MINETTE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3094 8782 3076 8777 3079 8758 3100 8761
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:59 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 58 min |
| Mar 29, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Mar 29, 3:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 50 min |
| Mar 29, 4:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 76 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.