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Tornado Warning 57, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 24, 2002, 2:40 AM CST for Choctaw 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, 2:40 AM CST (08:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2002, 10:15 AM CST
- In force
- 7 days
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Choctaw 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 |
| Dec 24, 2:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 258 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.
099 WFUS54 KMOB 240840 TORMOB ALC023-240915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 240 AM CST TUE DEC 24 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 315 AM CST * AT 238 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF NEEDHAM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... TOXEY BY 250 AM CST LAND...ROCK SPRINGS BY 255 AM CST RIDERWOOD...PUSHMATAHA BY 300 AM CST BUTLER...LISMAN BY 305 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 3217 8842 3184 8838 3208 8813 3229 8810
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, 2:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 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.