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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL

January 13, 2005Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 13, 2005, 8:38 AM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 37 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: Jan 13, 2005, 8:38 AM CST (14:38 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2005, 9:15 AM CST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:40 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
Jan 13, 5:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 689 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 621 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 310 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 340 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 6.4

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 131439
TORMOB
MSC153-131515-
/X.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0001.050113T1438Z-050113T1515Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
838 AM CST THU JAN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 915 AM CST

* AT 833 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO FROM
  GRETNA TO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MULBERRY...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST     
  AT 20 MPH. THREE STORMS WERE ALONG THE LINE THAT WERE MOVING       
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BUCKATUNNA AND BATTLES BY 845 AM CST

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE DANGEROUS STORMS...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.

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

LAT...LON 3187 8860 3144 8889 3146 8845 3188 8848

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 8:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	72 days
Jan 13, 9:10 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene	73 days
Jan 13, 10:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George	40 days

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.