Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 11:04 AM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports 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
- Nov 8, 2000, 11:04 AM CST (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2000, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baldwin County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 11:05 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Foley, AL | A low topped thunderstorm produced a brief F1 tornado about 1 mile Southeast of the community. The tornado first touched down in the Leisure Lakes subdivision causing minor roof damage to a few homes. The tornado then moved Northeast into the neighboring Gl |
| Nov 8, 11:25 AM CST | Tornado F0 | Fairhope, AL | A tornado, the second in Baldwin county in a 20 minute time period, formed just south of Fairhope. The tornado touched down just south of the intersection of Highway 27 and Highway 32, narrowly missing a trailer park and a nearby school, but producing some tr |
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, 5.1 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 10:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 39 min |
| Nov 8, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 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 |
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.