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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Mobile, AL

July 10, 2005Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2005, 4:35 PM CDT for Escambia 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 10, 2005, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2005, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 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
Jul 10, 1:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -335 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1001 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 102135
TORMOB
ALC053-102200-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0028.050710T2135Z-050710T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
435 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 500 PM CDT

* AT 431 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER MALTA...AND
  MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FREEMANVILLE BY 440 PM CDT
  I65 AND CR 1 AND CARNEY BY 445 PM CDT
  POARCH BY 450 PM CDT
  MCCULLOUGH BY 455 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.

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 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 3101 8756 3101 8741 3127 8754 3120 8761

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 102150
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
448 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005

ALC053-102200-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-050710T2200Z/
ESCAMBIA AL-
448 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR WEST CENTRAL
ESCAMBIA COUNTY...

AT 444 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF 
FREEMANVILLE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF BAY MINETTE...MOVING 
NORTH AT 10 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE PASSING NEAR...
  POARCH...MCCULLOUGH AND HOLMAN PRISON BY 500 PM CDT

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THIS 
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE 
PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND 
NORTHWEST FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 3101 8756 3102 8744 3117 8748 3115 8759

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	61 min
Jul 10, 4:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	2 hr
Jul 10, 5:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	45 min
Jul 10, 5:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox	4 hr
Jul 10, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Monroe	47 min
Jul 10, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe	43 min
Jul 10, 6:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	2 hr

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.