Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2000, 9:59 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Marengo County, Alabama; Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 61 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
- Apr 2, 2000, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2000, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 10:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Waynesboro, MS | Strong thunderstorm winds blew trees down north of 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 2143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 030309 SVRMOB ALC023-091-MSC153-030400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 959 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHOCTAW COUNTY IN ALABAMA MARENGO COUNTY IN ALABAMA AND WAYNE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1100 PM CDT * AT 959 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO MISSISSIPPI...TO 15 MILES WEST OF BUTLER ALABAMA TO 15 MILES WEST OF DEMOPOLIS ALABAMA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING OVER THE WARNED COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo, Washington | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 12:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 12:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 2:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 25 min |
| Apr 3, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe | 33 min |
| Apr 3, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 29 min |
| Apr 3, 12:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 29 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.