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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Mobile, AL

June 25, 2004Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2004, 6:15 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 15 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, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2004, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 15 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), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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
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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 151 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.

444 
WFUS54 KMOB 252315
TORMOB
ALC097-252330-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 612 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF
  SAND ISLAND...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FORT GAINES AND EAST END OF DAUPHIN ISLAND BY 620 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 NORTHWEST 
FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 3031 8825 3018 8820 3028 8795 3035 8798

$$

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, 5:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	27 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.