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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Mobile, AL

April 3, 2000Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2000, 2:46 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Apr 3, 2000, 2:46 PM CDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2000, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Monroe County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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
Apr 3, 10:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 031947
TORMOB
ALC099-032015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
246 PM CDT MON APR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 315 PM CDT

* AT 246 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF FRISCO CITY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF    
  MONROEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MONROEVILLE AT 300 PM CDT

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 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MOBILE.

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.

LAT...LON 3153 8756 3136 8756 3141 8733 3155 8717
          3175 8717

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, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	41 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.