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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 10, 2000, 3:13 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 10, 2000, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2000, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 989 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -129 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1197 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 102013 TORMOB ALC003-102045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 313 PM CDT THU AUG 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN ALABAMA THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...FAIRHOPE...FOLEY * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 313 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROBERTSDALE...MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH. 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3041 8759 3059 8761 3060 8793 3036 8791
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 9:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 30 min |
| Aug 9, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 26 min |
| Aug 10, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 36 min |
| Aug 10, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Aug 10, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 26 min |
| Aug 10, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 36 min |
| Aug 10, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 52 min |
| Aug 10, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| Aug 10, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 66 min |
| Aug 10, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.