Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2000, 1:19 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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 3, 2000, 1:19 PM CDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarke County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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 3, 1:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Dickinson, AL | Trees and power lines were blown down between Dickinson and Fulton. |
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 3, 10:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 031820 SVRMOB ALC025-031900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 119 PM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 200 PM CDT * AT 119 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THOMASVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... THOMASVILLE AT 135 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA 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 SER)VICE 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, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Marengo | 61 min |
| 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, 1:25 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 |
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.