Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 3, 2000, 7:50 PM CST for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2000, 7:50 PM CST (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2000, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 528 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 040152 TORMOB ALC053-040230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 750 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN ALABAMA * UNTIL 830 PM CST * AT 750 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF ATMORE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... JUST NORTH OF ATMORE AT 800 PM CST NEAR FLOMATON AT 820 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. 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, 7:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 27 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.