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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 11:42 AM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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 8, 2000, 11:42 AM CST (17:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2000, 12:15 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Baldwin County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 11:50 AM CST | Tornado F1 | Fairhope, AL | A tornado, the third in Baldwin county in a 45 minute time period, developed and followed a path very similar to a weaker tornado that occurred about 20 minutes earlier. This tornado touched down near the intersection of Highway 27 and Highway 32, moved north |
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, 5.7 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.
- 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 081746 COR TORMOB ALC003-081815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING ...CORRECTED FOR LOCATION AND PATHCAST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1142 AM CST WED NOV 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 1215 PM CST * AT 1142 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO SOUTH OF WEEKS BAY...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST BALDWIN COUNTY SOUTH OF FAIRHOPE. 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 3026 8797 3026 8776 3066 8774 3066 8800
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, 11:04 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Nov 8, 11:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 29 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.