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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2000, 1:25 AM CST for Clarke County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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 9, 2000, 1:25 AM CST (07:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 2000, 2:00 AM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clarke County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 1:35 AM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Fulton, AL | High winds from a thunderstorm blew several trees down and blew some shingles from a home near Fulton. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 382 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 090728 TORMOB ALC025-131-090800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 125 AM CST THU NOV 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 200 AM CST * AT 125 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GROVE HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO PASS ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF THOMASVILLE BY 150 AM AND 4 MILES EAST OF PINE HILL OR NEAR YELLOW BLUFF BY 200 AM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER HOMES 5AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3164 8783 3156 8764 3193 8745 3201 8760
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 2:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 23 min |
| Nov 9, 3:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 23 min |
| Nov 9, 3:24 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 36 min |
| Nov 9, 3:39 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 36 min |
| Nov 9, 4:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 42 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.