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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Mobile, AL

December 16, 2000Butler County, Conecuh County, Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 16, 2000, 4:31 PM CST for Butler County, Conecuh County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 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, 4:31 PM CST (22:31 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 5:00 PM CST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Butler County, AL, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 162231
TORMOB
ALC013-035-099-162300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 PM CST

* AT 428 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER MIDWAY...OR ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MIDWAY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
   SAUCER BY 440 PM CST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3169 8714 3162 8709 3188 8645 3197 8668

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, 4:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	28 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.