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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL

November 5, 2002Butler County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 5, 2002, 11:42 AM CST for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 6 days. 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, 11:42 AM CST (17:42 UTC)
Expired: Nov 11, 2002, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 6 days
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Butler County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 608 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

771 
WFUS54 KMOB 051742
TORMOB
ALC013-051845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1142 AM CST TUE NOV 5 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1245 PM CST

* AT 1140 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 10 MILES SOUTH OF STARLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  GEORGIANA...I65 AND AL 106 BY 1150 AM CST
  CHAPMAN...AVANT BY 1155 AM CST
  BOLLING...WALD BY NOON CST
  GREENVILLE...I65 AND AL 10 BY 1205 PM 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 3163 8692 3151 8673 3174 8645 3199 8646

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, 10:08 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke	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, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.