Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 56, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 2:36 AM CST for Monroe 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, 2:36 AM CST (08:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2002, 10:30 AM CST
- In force
- 7 days
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe 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 24, 2:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1239 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
973 WFUS54 KMOB 240836 TORMOB ALC099-240915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 236 AM CST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 315 AM CST * AT 233 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANISTEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PERDUE HILL...FRISCO CITY BY 245 AM CST MEXIA BY 250 AM CST WEST MONROEVILLE...MONROEVILLE BY 255 AM CST PETERMAN...KEITH BY 300 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 3150 8752 3133 8748 3158 8723 3173 8740
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, 2:19 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 7 days |
| Dec 24, 2:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 37 min | |
| 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
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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.