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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2004Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 1:55 AM CST for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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: Nov 24, 2004, 1:55 AM CST (07:55 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 2:30 AM CST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:55 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 24, 12:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 71 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: 866 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 240755
TORMOB
MSC131-240830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
154 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  WESTERN STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 230 AM CST

* AT 154 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ROGERS
  LAKE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WIGGINS BY 215 AM CST

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 AM CST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3075 8947 3062 8933 3091 8899 3092 8930

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 2:34 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	26 min
Nov 24, 2:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene	32 min
Nov 24, 3:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	31 min
Nov 24, 4:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Wayne	41 min
Nov 24, 5:03 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	George, Perry, Stone	27 min
Nov 24, 5:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.