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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2000Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2000, 1:08 PM CST for Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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 24, 2000, 1:08 PM CST (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2000, 1:45 PM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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.

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 24, 9:00 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 265 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 421 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 552 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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

603 
WFUS54 KMOB 241908
TORMOB
ALC003-FLC033-241945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
108 PM CST FRI NOV 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 145 PM CST

* AT 1258 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER ORANGE BEACH...OR ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF ROMAR BEACH...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   PARADISE BEACH BY 120 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.

LAT...LON 3020 8767 3012 8754 3038 8735 3045 8747

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 1:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	42 min
Nov 24, 9:04 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	41 min
Nov 24, 10:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	29 min
Nov 24, 10:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	16 min
Nov 24, 11:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	30 min
Nov 24, 11:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	48 min
Nov 24, 11:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.