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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2000, 5:10 PM CDT for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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 13, 2000, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2000, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 5:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Deer Park, AL | Dime size hail was reported near Deer Park. |
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
193 WUUS54 KMOB 132211 SVRMOB ALC129-132245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 510 PM CDT THU APR 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 510 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CHATOM...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF JACKSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE LARGE HAIL. THE STORM WILL BE MOVING ACROSS CHATOM BY 515 PM.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Marengo | 28 min |
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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.