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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Mobile, AL

March 29, 2000Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2000, 4:14 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 76 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 29, 2000, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2000, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 76 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 29, 1:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2288 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 292219
TORMOB
ALC003-292330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
414 PM CST WED MAR 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 414 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF FORT MORGAN.  THE TORNADO IS MOVING     
  EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR FORT MORGAN BETWEEN 430 AND 445  
  PM.
  
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NSATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MOBILE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST WEDNESDAY EVENING 
FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 2:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	59 min
Mar 29, 2:59 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Mar 29, 3:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	58 min
Mar 29, 3:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	46 min
Mar 29, 3:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.