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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL

July 10, 2005Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2005, 6:02 PM CDT for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 43 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, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -157 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 751 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 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 102302
TORMOB
ALC099-102345-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0031.050710T2302Z-050710T2345Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A TORNADO OVER EXCEL...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MONROEVILLE BY 610 PM CDT
  MEXIA AND WEST MONROEVILLE BY 615 PM CDT
  PERDUE HILL BY 630 PM CDT
  CLAIBORNE AND FOUNTAIN BY 635 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 3134 8737 3143 8726 3165 8742 3154 8756

$$

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, 5:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Monroe	47 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.