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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 15, 2004, 1:37 PM CDT for Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 53 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
- Sep 15, 2004, 1:37 PM CDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 2004, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 151837 TORMOB ALC003-FLC033-151930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 135 PM CDT WED SEP 15 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SOUTH ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 134 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER THE GULF OF MEXICO ABOUT 17 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PENSACOLA PASS...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PENSACOLA PASS BY 150 PM CDT JOHNSONS BEACH AND PERDIDO KEY BY 155 PM CDT PERDIDO BEACH AND JOSEPHINE BY 200 PM CDT ELBERTA AND MIFLIN BY 205 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 1000 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA COASTAL COUNTIES. LAT...LON 3012 8708 3018 8705 3051 8766 3030 8779 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 36 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.