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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL

May 31, 2004Greene County, Perry County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2004, 2:18 PM CDT for Greene County, Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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: May 31, 2004, 2:18 PM CDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2004, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
May 31, 10:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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: 1274 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.6

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The text

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

826 
WFUS54 KMOB 311918
TORMOB
MSC041-111-311945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
218 PM CDT MON MAY 31 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 213 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF
  LEAF...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  VERNAL BY 235 PM CDT

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3102 8858 3101 8883 3097 8883 3097 8890
          3101 8893 3111 8893 3111 8883 3113 8874
          3113 8866

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	13 hr
May 31, 11:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	41 min
May 31, 2:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry	39 min

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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.