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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

February 13, 2000Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2000, 8:29 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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: Feb 13, 2000, 8:29 PM CST (02:29 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2000, 9:00 PM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Wilcox County, AL

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Feb 13, 8:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 779 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 446 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 561 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 15.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 140233
TORMOB
ALC131-140300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
829 PM CST SUN FEB 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WILCOX COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 900 PM CST

* AT 829 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF OAK HILL...OR ABOUT 29 MILES WEST OF
  GREENVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR
ALABAMA.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 10:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	35 min
Feb 13, 10:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	36 min
Feb 13, 10:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	51 min
Feb 13, 11:18 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	27 min
Feb 13, 11:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	31 min
Feb 14, 12:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.