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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL

March 11, 2000Mobile County, Alabama; George County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 11, 2000, 4:36 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama; George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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: Mar 11, 2000, 4:36 AM CST (10:36 UTC)
Expired: Mar 11, 2000, 5:00 AM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:36 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 570 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1260 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 111037
TORMOB
ALC097-MSC039-111100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
436 AM CST SAT MAR 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GEORGE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI  MOBILE COUNTY IN ALABAMA

* UNTIL 500 AM CST

* AT 436 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILMER...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF
  LUCEDALE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WILMER AT 505 AM 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 AGENcCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MOBILE.

LAT...LON 3075 8874 3062 8859 3087 8827 3103 8845

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 9:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Marengo	30 min
Mar 10, 9:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	46 min
Mar 10, 9:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	23 min
Mar 10, 9:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	31 min
Mar 11, 6:39 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	36 min
Mar 11, 10:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	26 min
Mar 11, 10:37 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	23 min
Mar 11, 4:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George	46 min
Mar 11, 8:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	46 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2000 Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2000 Every tornado warning in 2000 Tornadoes in 2000

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.