Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 55, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 2:19 AM CST for Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 7 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
- Dec 24, 2002, 2:19 AM CST (08:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2002, 9:45 AM CST
- In force
- 7 days
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clarke County, AL, Washington 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 8:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 251 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 472 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 658 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 957 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
185 WFUS54 KMOB 240819 TORMOB ALC025-129-240900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 219 AM CST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 300 AM CST * AT 213 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TOPTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... TOINETTE...SUNFLOWER BY 225 AM CST PRESTWICK...CORTELUOU BY 230 AM CST CARSON...LEROY BY 235 AM CST JACKSON BY 240 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. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. 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. IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3128 8823 3116 8808 3143 8776 3156 8794
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 8:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 25 min | |
| Dec 23, 9:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 7 days |
| Dec 23, 10:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 43 min | |
| Dec 24, 2:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 38 min | |
| Dec 24, 2:09 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 36 min | |
| Dec 24, 2:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 37 min | |
| Dec 24, 2:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 7 days |
| Dec 24, 2:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 7 days |
| Dec 24, 3:02 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 43 min |
| Dec 24, 3:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 42 min | |
| Dec 24, 3:33 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Dec 24, 3:33 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Dec 24, 3:52 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 38 min |
| Dec 24, 4:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 46 min | |
| Dec 24, 4:17 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 43 min | |
| Dec 24, 4:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 17 min | |
| Dec 24, 4:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 38 min | |
| Dec 24, 6:13 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Dec 24, 6:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Dec 24, 6:25 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Dec 24, 7:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 45 min | |
| Dec 24, 7:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 34 min | |
| Dec 24, 8:18 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 117 min |
| Dec 24, 8:29 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002
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.