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Tornado Warning 27, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 5:28 AM CST for Clarke County, Washington County, Wilcox 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
- Nov 24, 2004, 5:28 AM CST (11:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
| Nov 24, 5:20 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 209 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 241128 RRA TORMOB ALC025-131-241200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING...RETRANSMISSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 513 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 600 AM CST * AT 513 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER OPINE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL WILCOX COUNTY AT 45 MPH AND WAS RECENTLY LOCATED NEAR PINE HILL. THE CLARKE COUNTY TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM IS ALSO EXPECTED TO TRAVERSE PINE HILL AGAIN LATER IN THE HOUR. THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE TORNADO WARNINGS FOR BOTH CLARKE AND WILCOX COUNTIES. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... THOMASVILLE BY 525 AM CST SHAWNEE BY 530 AM CST SUNNY SOUTH BY 535 AM CST PINE HILL BY 540 AM CST IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE DANGEROUS STORMS...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 3194 8802 3179 8792 3206 8726 3227 8740 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WFUS54 KMOB 241128 TORMOB ALC025-129-241200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 528 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 600 AM CST * AT 524 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER ST STEPHENS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WINN BY 540 AM CST GROVE HILL AND WHATELY BY 550 AM CST SCYRENE AND DICKINSON BY 555 AM CST IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER. MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. COVER YOUR BODY WITH BLANKETS OR PILLOWS. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3151 8822 3136 8811 3166 8754 3185 8768 $$
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, 4:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 5:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 44 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 |
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.