Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2005, 4:51 AM CDT for Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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, 4:51 AM CDT (09:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2005, 5:16 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:55 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 6, 4:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 166 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 060951 TORMOB ALC097-129-061015- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0017.050706T0951Z-050706T1015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 451 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 515 AM CDT * AT 449 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CELESTE... AND MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PINEOLA BY 500 AM CDT CITRONELLE AND SIDNEY BY 505 AM CDT DEER PARK BY 515 AM 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 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3084 8822 3089 8802 3130 8816 3119 8845 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 061016 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 515 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2005 ALC097-129-061025- /O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0017.000000T0000Z-050706T1015Z/ WASHINGTON AL-MOBILE AL- 515 AM CDT WED JUL 6 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN MOBILE AND SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 515 AM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE TORNADO HAD DISSIPATED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3084 8822 3089 8802 3130 8816 3119 8845 $$
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, 3:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 4:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 2 hr |
| 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 |
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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.