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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Mobile, AL

June 1, 2000Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2000, 12:10 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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
Jun 1, 2000, 12:10 PM CDT (17:10 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2000, 12:45 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Baldwin County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
994 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 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 011711
TORMOB
ALC003-011745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1210 PM CDT THU JUN 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1245 PM CDT

* AT 1210 PM CDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A WATER SPOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  ORANGE BEACH...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GULF SHORES...MOVING
  NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE WATERSPOUT IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ORANGE BEACH AT 1230 PM CDT

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

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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.