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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL

July 10, 2005Baldwin County, Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2005, 5:28 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2005, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Monroe County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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 102229
TORMOB
ALC003-099-102315-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0030.050710T2228Z-050710T2315Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 527 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF
  REDTOWN...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH. A TORNADO WAS REPORTED 
EARLIER FROM THIS STORM OVER WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY...NEAR POARCH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MINEOLA BY 545 PM CDT
  BLACKSHER AND LITTLE RIVER BY 550 PM CDT
  CHRYSLER BY 600 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 3111 8765 3123 8757 3135 8775 3125 8786

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 102251
SVSMOB

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

ALC003-102300-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-050710T2315Z/
BALDWIN AL-
550 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BALDWIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

LAT...LON 3122 8762 3123 8757 3141 8761 3133 8773

$$

ALC099-102315-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-050710T2315Z/
MONROE AL-
550 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR EXTREME
SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY...

AT 548 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MINEOLA...OR ABOUT
25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONROEVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MT PLEASANT AND HOMEWOOD BY 600 PM CDT
  ELISKA BY 605 PM CDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.

LAT...LON 3122 8762 3123 8757 3141 8761 3133 8773

$$

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, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	25 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, 6:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Monroe	43 min
Jul 10, 6:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	2 hr

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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.