Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2000, 5:54 PM CST for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 min. 1 report 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
- Mar 3, 2000, 5:54 PM CST (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 6:15 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Fruitdale, AL | High thunderstorm winds blew several trees down in the community. Law enforcement personnel reported no structural damage from the fallen trees. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 032355 TORMOB ALC129-040045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 554 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 645 PM CST * AT 554 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 15 MILES WEST OF CHATOM...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAYNESBORO...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CHATOM AT 625 PM CST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MOBILE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST FRIDAY EVENING FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 4:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 35 min |
| Mar 3, 5:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.