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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Mobile, AL

September 15, 2004Conecuh County, Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 7:18 PM CDT for Conecuh County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 15, 2004, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Sep 15, 2004, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Conecuh County, AL, Escambia 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
Sep 15, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 223 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: 95 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 251 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 160018
TORMOB
ALC035-053-160045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
718 PM CDT WED SEP 15 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 713 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER DIXIE...AND
  MOVING NORTHWEST AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY AT 730 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...ABANDON VEHICLES AND
MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER. MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. COVER YOUR BODY WITH BLANKETS OR PILLOWS.

IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO
REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN
ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 3108 8677 3121 8668 3128 8678 3123 8696

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 16, 3:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Sep 16, 5:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia, Monroe	113 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.