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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL

March 3, 2000Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2000, 7:18 PM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 3, 2000, 7:18 PM CST (01:18 UTC)
Expired: Mar 3, 2000, 7:45 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:21 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
Mar 3, 7:30 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Mt Vernon, AL	High winds damaged a mobile home and blew down several trees just west of Mt. Vernon.
Mar 3, 7:40 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Tensaw, AL	Several large tree limbs were blown from trees near Tensaw.

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 nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1009 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 040119
TORMOB
ALC003-097-040145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
718 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN ALABAMA  
  NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 745 PM CST

* AT 718 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF MOUNT VERNON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST
  OF CITRONELLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

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.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MOBILE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST
FRIDAY EVENING FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 3, 6:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	40 min
Mar 3, 6:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	41 min
Mar 3, 6:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	31 min
Mar 3, 7:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	40 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.