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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2004Clarke County, Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 4:44 AM CST for Clarke County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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, 4:44 AM CST (10:44 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 5:15 AM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Clarke County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:44 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 748 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 728 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 241044
TORMOB
ALC025-131-241115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 515 AM CST

* AT 444 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER 
  CHILTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.  THIS IS ALSO AN 
  EXTENSION OF THE TORNADO WARNING CURRENTLY IN EFFECT FOR CLARKE
  COUNTY.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ROUNDHILL AND THOMASVILLE BY 450 AM CST
  SUNNY SOUTH AND SHAWNEE BY 455 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 3186 8794 3172 8781 3185 8757 3202 8769

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 3:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	31 min
Nov 24, 4:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	14 min
Nov 24, 4:13 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke	32 min
Nov 24, 4:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	41 min
Nov 24, 4:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke	31 min
Nov 24, 5:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	44 min
Nov 24, 5:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington, Wilcox	32 min
Nov 24, 5:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	33 min
Nov 24, 6:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	30 min
Nov 24, 6:07 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	23 min
Nov 24, 6:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe	44 min
Nov 24, 6:33 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	27 min
Nov 24, 6:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	41 min
Nov 24, 6:53 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Nov 24, 6:53 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Nov 24, 7:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	24 min
Nov 24, 7:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	55 min
Nov 24, 7:47 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	58 min
Nov 24, 8:16 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	29 min
Nov 24, 8:38 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr

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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.