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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL

July 16, 2000Mobile County, Alabama

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 16, 4:55 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 75 EMobile, ALHigh 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 736 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2000-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 3:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile, Washington24 min
Jul 16, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBClarke31 min
Jul 16, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile30 min
Jul 16, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBMobile30 min
Jul 16, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin49 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.