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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 2:37 PM CST for Choctaw County, Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 23 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
- Dec 16, 2000, 2:37 PM CST (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 2:40 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Millry, AL | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Millry. A couple of homes also had some shingles blown from their roofs. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 10:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 531 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 563 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 162038 TORMOB ALC023-025-129-162100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 237 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 300 PM CST * AT 232 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SILVER CROSS...OR ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MILLRY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PEACOCK...RURAL...TALLAHATTA SPRINGS BY 255 PM CST THOMASVILLE...ROUNDHILL BY 300 PM CST IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3166 8834 3151 8822 3182 8759 3199 8779
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 1:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 51 min |
| Dec 16, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Marengo | 51 min |
| Dec 16, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Dec 16, 4:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 28 min |
| Dec 16, 4:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe | 29 min |
| Dec 16, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 40 min |
| Dec 16, 5:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 38 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.