Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 7:06 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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, 7:06 AM CST (13:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 7:30 AM CST
- In force
- 24 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), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:08 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 241306 TORMOB ALC097-241330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 706 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 730 AM CST * AT 703 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF CODEN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CEDAR POINT BY 720 AM CST DELCHAMPS AND MON LOUIS BY 730 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 3035 8831 3026 8824 3036 8803 3046 8811 $$
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, 6:16 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, 7:35 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.