Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2005, 3:59 AM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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
- Jul 6, 2005, 3:59 AM CDT (08:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 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), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 11:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 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 060900 TORMOB ALC097-060930- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0016.050706T0859Z-050706T0930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 359 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 430 AM CDT * AT 357 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER OAK GROVE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TURNERVILLE AND GULFCREST BY 410 AM CDT PINEOLA AND SIDNEY BY 415 AM CDT CITRONELLE BY 420 AM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS TO 70 MPH. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3081 8830 3080 8809 3115 8805 3116 8828 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 060920 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 420 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2005 ALC097-060930- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0016.000000T0000Z-050706T0930Z/ MOBILE AL- 420 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 AM CDT FOR NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY... AT 418 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GULFCREST... MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SIDNEY AND 8 MILES WEST OF PINEOLA BY 425 AM CDT CITRONELLE BY 430 AM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS TO 70 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3083 8835 3083 8812 3110 8806 3112 8834 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 2:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 113 min |
| Jul 6, 3:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 4:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 93 min |
| Jul 6, 5:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 36 min |
| Jul 6, 5:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 5:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 32 min |
| Jul 6, 6:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 6:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 7:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Monroe | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 7:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 17 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 8:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:44 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 37 min |
| Jul 6, 10:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 11:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Washington | 115 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.