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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Mobile, AL

December 16, 2000Conecuh County, Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 4:02 PM CST for Conecuh County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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: Dec 16, 2000, 4:02 PM CST (22:02 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 4:30 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Conecuh County, AL, Monroe County, AL

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, 4:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 162202
TORMOB

ALC035-099-162230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
402 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 430 PM CST

* AT 353 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER MANISTEE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF PERDUE HILL...
  MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   MONROEVILLE...WEST MONROEVILLE BY 405 PM CST
   PETERMAN BY 410 PM CST
   NICHBURG BY 415 PM CST
   PINE ORCHARD BY 420 PM CST
   LYEFFION BY 425 PM CST
   MIXONVILLE...WILCOX...OWASSA BY 430 PM CST

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 3150 8756 3140 8752 3149 8685 3174 8695

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, 2:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	23 min
Dec 16, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	33 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

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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.