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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Mobile, AL

August 28, 2005Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 2005, 6:51 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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: Aug 28, 2005, 6:51 PM CDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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
Aug 28, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 282352
TORMOB
ALC003-097-290015-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0033.050828T2351Z-050829T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
651 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 651 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF   
  PALMETTO BEACH...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FORT MORGAN BY 705 PM CDT
  EAST END OF DAUPHIN ISLAND AND FORT GAINES BY 710 PM CDT
  DAUPHIN ISLAND AND SAND ISLAND BY 715 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.

LAT...LON 3012 8781 3028 8782 3043 8825 3027 8836

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 290000
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
659 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

ALC003-097-290015-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-050829T0015Z/
BALDWIN AL-MOBILE AL-
659 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR EXTREME SOUTH
CENTRAL MOBILE AND EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN BALDWIN COUNTIES...

AT 659 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF FORT
MORGAN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF DAUPHIN ISLAND...MOVING NORTHWEST
AT 35 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  FORT MORGAN BY 705 PM CDT
  EAST END OF DAUPHIN ISLAND...FORT GAINES AND MOUTH OF MOBILE BAY BY
  710 PM CDT
  DAUPHIN ISLAND AND CEDAR POINT BY 715 PM CDT

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.

LAT...LON 3019 8788 3028 8788 3037 8816 3026 8824

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 28, 3:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	39 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.