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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL

November 6, 2000Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 6, 2000, 10:59 PM CST for Baldwin 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
Nov 6, 2000, 10:59 PM CST (04:59 UTC)
Expired
Nov 6, 2000, 11:30 PM CST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Baldwin County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 192 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 00:00Z on 2000-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 528 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 2000-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 070501
TORMOB

ALC003-070530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1059 PM CST MON NOV 6 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1130 PM CST

* AT 1059 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BAY MINETTE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BAY MINETTE BY 1110 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 3086 8796 3072 8783 3096 8761 3112 8770

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 6, 8:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile35 min
Nov 6, 9:29 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBMobile31 min
Nov 6, 10:03 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBMobile27 min
Nov 6, 10:20 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOBMobile85 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.