Alert archive / Florida / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2000, 4:28 PM CST for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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, 4:28 PM CST (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 4:30 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 57 M | Warrington, FL | The fire department in Warrington measured a thunderstorm downburst wind gust of 65 mph at 430 pm CST. The strong winds associated with this downburst produced a large area of wind damage in the Warrington area. A large Oak tree was uprooted and landed on |
| Mar 29, 4:40 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Pensacola, FL | Dime size hail was reported in the 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 nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 292229 SVRMOB FLC033-292300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 428 PM CST WED MAR 29 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN FLORIDA * UNTIL 500 PM CST * AT 428 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ENSLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 61 min |
| Mar 29, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 35 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.