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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Mobile, AL

January 9, 2000Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2000, 4:42 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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
Jan 9, 2000, 4:42 PM CST (22:42 UTC)
Expired
Jan 9, 2000, 5:45 PM CST
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Wilcox County, AL

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 9, 4:45 PM CSTThunderstorm Wind 50 EMillers Ferry, ALTrees and power lines were blown down near Millers Ferry.

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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2000-01-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 42 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2000-01-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 342 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
42 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-87 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
392 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 092241
SVRMOB
ALC131-092345-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
442 PM CST SUN JAN 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM CST

* AT 438 PM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WAS LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF CAMDEN OR 3 MILES WEST OF FURMAN...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH THE VICINITY OF -
  FURMAN BY 445 PM CST

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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 9, 1:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMarengo38 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.