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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL

June 25, 2004Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2004, 5:48 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. 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: Jun 25, 2004, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 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), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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
Jun 25, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 153 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: 149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 908 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

289 
WFUS54 KMOB 252248
TORMOB
ALC097-252315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
548 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 538 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  DELCHAMPS...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BELLEFONTAINE BY 555 PM CDT
  HOLLINGERS ISLAND BY 600 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT 
FRIDAY EVENING FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST 
FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

LAT...LON 3041 8823 3047 8827 3064 8805 3071 8800
          3053 8806 3048 8810 3038 8811 3034 8815

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 1:30 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		45 min
Jun 25, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Jun 25, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Jun 25, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	15 min
Jun 25, 6:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	25 min
Jun 25, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	28 min
Jun 25, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	22 min

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.