Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 2, 2000, 4:36 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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 2, 2000, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 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 2, 4:45 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Alberta, AL | Nickel size hail was reported in the community. |
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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 022143 COR TORMOB ALC131-022230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME... 436 PM CDT SUN APR 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WILCOX COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 530 PM CDT * AT 436 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER SOUTH CENTRAL MARENGO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF LINDEN...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF WILCOX COUNTY NEAR LAMISON...FLATWOOD...CATHERINE...AND GASTONBURG. 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. 3REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MOBILE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR ALABAMA.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Marengo | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 4:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Marengo | 49 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.