Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2000, 3:57 AM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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
- Apr 24, 2000, 3:57 AM CDT (08:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2000, 4:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 4:00 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Mobile, AL | It was found from a National Weather Service Storm Survey that a F1 tornado struck near downtown Mobile. The tornado's path length was approximately 1 mile long and touched down near I -165, passing through the State Docks area. Some roof damage to apartm |
| Apr 24, 4:30 AM CDT | Hail 1 | (Mob)Mobile Bates Fl, AL | Quarter size hail was reported west of the Mobile National Weather Service Office. |
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 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 240858 SVRMOB ALC097-240945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 357 AM CDT MON APR 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 445 AM CDT * AT 354 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRICHARD TO 14 MILES WEST OF PRICHARD TO 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF TILLMANS CORNER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... PRICHARD...SARALAND...THEODORE...AND TILLMANS CORNER AT 415 AM CDT CHICKASAW...MOBILE AT 420 AM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR MISSISSIPPI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 4:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 9:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 62 min |
| Apr 24, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 30 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.