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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Mobile, AL

November 8, 2000Clarke County, Marengo County, Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 8, 2000, 1:16 PM CST for Clarke County, Marengo County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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, 1:16 PM CST (19:16 UTC)
Expired: Nov 8, 2000, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Clarke County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 530 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 081917
TORMOB

ALC025-091-131-082000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  MARENGO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 200 PM CST

* AT 113 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF GROVE HILL...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  JACKSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   GROVE HILL IN CLARKE COUNTY BY 130 PM CST
   THOMASVILLE IN CLARKE COUNTY BY 200 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.

IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3161 8810 3154 8791 3192 8759 3210 8791

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, 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, 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.