Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 6:16 AM CST for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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, 6:16 AM CST (12:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:19 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 270 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
- 52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 241216 TORMOB ALC099-241300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 616 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 700 AM CST * AT 614 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER KEITH...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NATCHEZ AND RIVER RIDGE BY 625 AM CST BEATRICE AND CORDUROY STATION BY 630 AM CST TURNBULL AND TURKESTAN BY 635 AM CST MCWILLIAMS BY 640 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 3173 8755 3156 8747 3172 8697 3186 8701 $$
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, 6:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 23 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.