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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Mobile, AL

October 19, 2004Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 19, 2004, 7:58 AM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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: Oct 19, 2004, 7:58 AM CDT (12:58 UTC)
Expired: Oct 19, 2004, 8:30 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:01 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 nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 2224 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 629 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 9.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 191258
TORMOB
ALC097-191330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
757 AM CDT TUE OCT 19 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 830 AM CDT

* AT 754 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SIDNEY...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TURNERVILLE BY 810 AM CDT
  PINEOLA BY 815 AM CDT
  CHASTANG AND BUCKS BY 825 AM CDT
  MOUNT VERNON AND FORT STODDARD BY 830 AM CDT

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE.

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.

LAT...LON 3111 8836 3094 8832 3096 8797 3116 8797

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 19, 7:20 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	40 min
Oct 19, 10:45 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	60 min
Oct 19, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	37 min
Oct 19, 5:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	11 min
Oct 19, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	37 min
Oct 19, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	32 min

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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.