Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 27, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 6, 2000, 9:29 PM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 6, 2000, 9:29 PM CST (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 6, 2000, 10:00 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Mobile County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 9:30 PM CST | Tornado F2 | Irvington, AL | A thunderstorm produced an F2 tornado that first touched down near the intersection of Highway 188 and Four Mile Road. A house suffered roof damage and a couple of barns were damaged. Trees were also blown down. The tornado moved northeast and trees were bl |
| Nov 6, 10:10 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | (Mob)Mobile Bates Fl, AL | High thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines at several locations just east of the Mobile Airport. |
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 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 746 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 070330 TORMOB ALC097-070400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 929 PM CST MON NOV 6 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 1000 PM CST * AT 922 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR IRVINGTON OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THEODORE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... THEODORE AND TILLMANS CORNER BY 935 PM CST MOBILE BY 955 PM CST IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3051 8839 3040 8822 3070 8808 3083 8813
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 35 min |
| Nov 6, 10:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 27 min |
| Nov 6, 10:20 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 85 min |
| Nov 6, 10:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 31 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.