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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2004George County, Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 5:03 AM CST for George County, Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi. 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: Nov 24, 2004, 5:03 AM CST (11:03 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 5:30 AM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties George County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 241103
TORMOB
MSC039-111-131-241130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 530 AM CST

* AT 459 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES EAST 
  OF THE WLOX TV STATION TOWER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
  THE PATH OF THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS NEAR THE
  INTERSECTION OF THE STONE...GEORGE AND PERRY COUNTY LINES BY 
  AROUND 515 AM.  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO ADVANCING
  INTO WESTERN STONE AND PERRY COUNTIES AND MAY GENERATE SEVERE
  DAMAGING WIND GUSTS.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BENNDALE BY 515 AM CST
  MERRILL AND AVENT BY 525 AM CST
  BEXLEY BY 530 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 3076 8915 3063 8900 3097 8853 3102 8888

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 24, 1:55 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Stone	35 min
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, 5:44 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.