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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL

November 8, 2000Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 10:49 AM CST for Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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: Nov 8, 2000, 10:49 AM CST (16:49 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 11:15 AM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 985 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 661 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 081650
TORMOB

ALC097-129-081715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1049 AM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1115 AM CST

* AT 1044 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR CITRONELLE...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF...
  SOUTHERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTIES.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER
HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM 4HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3109 8836 3105 8816 3137 8804 3142 8830

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 10:36 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	39 min
Nov 8, 11:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	26 min
Nov 8, 11:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	29 min
Nov 8, 11:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	33 min
Nov 8, 12:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	39 min
Nov 8, 12:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	38 min
Nov 8, 12:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	48 min
Nov 8, 12:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	30 min
Nov 8, 1:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	46 min
Nov 8, 1:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Marengo, Wilcox	44 min
Nov 8, 2:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	28 min
Nov 8, 2:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	28 min
Nov 8, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	65 min

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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.