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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL

November 5, 2002Clarke County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 5, 2002, 10:08 AM CST for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 5, 2002, 10:08 AM CST (16:08 UTC)
Expired: Nov 5, 2002, 1:15 PM CST
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clarke 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
Nov 5, 9:50 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 424 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 335 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 376 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

831 
WFUS54 KMOB 051608
TORMOB
ALC025-051645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1007 AM CST TUE NOV 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1045 AM CST

* AT 1002 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.   
  THIS STORM HAS FORMED JUST NORTHEAST OF THE INITIAL TORNADIC STORM 
  LOCATED IN NORTHEAST WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WINN BY 1015 AM CST
  CHILTON...GROVE HILL BY 1025 AM CST
  OPINE...PEACOCK BY 1030 AM CST
  TALLAHATTA SPRINGS...FULTON BY 1035 AM CST

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER
HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3168 8809 3161 8806 3159 8802 3168 8768
          3189 8768 3199 8770 3200 8779 3189 8801

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 5, 9:48 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	3 hr
Nov 5, 11:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh	6 days
Nov 5, 11:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	6 days
Nov 5, 11:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler	6 days
Nov 5, 12:00 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Nov 5, 12:00 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Nov 5, 12:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB		44 min
Nov 5, 12:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	6 days
Nov 5, 1:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB		54 min
Nov 5, 1:32 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	10 days
Nov 5, 1:54 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Nov 5, 3:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		102 min
Nov 5, 3:48 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		102 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.