Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 28, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 6:07 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 23 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, 6:07 AM CST (12:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 6:30 AM CST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:09 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, 5:20 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMOB 241207
TORMOB
ALC097-241230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
607 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 630 AM CST
* AT 604 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
CITRONELLE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
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 3114 8805 3099 8829 3111 8840 3112 8840
3112 8834 3115 8833 3115 8802 3116 8799
$$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, 5:28 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, 6:16 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.