Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 2000, 4:24 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
- Jul 16, 2000, 4:24 PM CDT (21:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mobile County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 4:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 75 E | Mobile, AL | High thunderstorm winds produced roof and structural damage to several apartments in the west Mobile area. A section of the roof on the Lafeyette Square apartments was lifted off the building. The Grand Valley Apartment complex, in the same general location |
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 736 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 24 min |
| Jul 16, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 31 min |
| Jul 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 30 min |
| Jul 16, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 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.