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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

April 29, 2004Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2004, 3:39 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 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: Apr 29, 2004, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 2004, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 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), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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
Apr 29, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 87 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: 11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -529 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 374 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 292039
TORMOB
MSC131-292115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
338 PM CDT THU APR 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 415 PM CDT

* AT 334 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO JUST EAST OF    
  MCHENRY OR NEAR THE WLOX TV STATION TOWER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST   
  AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WHITES CROSSING BY 410 PM CDT
  RAMSEY SPRINGS BY 415 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3069 8922 3069 8902 3079 8888 3090 8889
          3091 8899

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	41 min
Apr 29, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Stone	31 min
Apr 29, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George	22 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.