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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2004Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2004, 7:47 AM CST for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 58 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, 7:47 AM CST (13:47 UTC)
Expired: Nov 24, 2004, 8:45 AM CST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:48 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, 5:20 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 241347
TORMOB
ALC003-097-241445-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 845 AM CST

* AT 743 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF CEDAR POINT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  POINT CLEAR AND HOUSTONVILLE BY 800 AM CST
  FAIRHOPE AND MONTROSE BY 805 AM CST
  CLAY CITY BY 810 AM CST
  SILVERHILL BY 815 AM CST

A TORNADO/WATERSPOUT HAS BEEN SITED OVER MOBILE BAY JUST EAST OF 
ALABAMA PORT.  

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 3039 8822 3025 8810 3050 8761 3073 8775

$$

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, 7:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	24 min
Nov 24, 7:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	55 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.