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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 2005, 7:16 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, 7:16 PM CDT (00:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2005, 7:40 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), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1069 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 343 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 290017 TORMOB ALC003-097-290045- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0034.050829T0016Z-050829T0040Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 716 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 740 PM CDT * AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF FORT MORGAN...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DELCHAMPS BY 725 PM CDT CODEN AND BAYOU LA BATRE BY 730 PM CDT GRAND BAY BY 735 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3014 8799 3030 8789 3064 8859 3044 8871 $$ JC
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 290030 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 728 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ALC003-290038- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-050829T0040Z/ BALDWIN AL- 728 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BALDWIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3022 8808 3033 8802 3049 8840 3037 8840 $$ ALC097-290040- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-050829T0040Z/ MOBILE AL- 728 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 740 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN MOBILE COUNTY... AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR EAST END OF DAUPHIN ISLAND...OR ABOUT NEAR DAUPHIN ISLAND...MOVING WEST AT 40 MPH. THIS TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM WILL MAINLY AFFECT AREAS OF EXTREME SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY OVER THE NEXT 10 MINUTES. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CODEN AND BAYOU LA BATRE BY 740 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3022 8808 3033 8802 3049 8840 3037 8840 $$ JC/13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 4:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 4 hr |
| Aug 29, 4:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 5:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 29 min |
| Aug 29, 6:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 25 min |
| Aug 29, 7:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Monroe | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 8:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 8:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 34 min |
| Aug 29, 8:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 64 min |
| Aug 29, 8:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 60 min |
| Aug 29, 11:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Escambia, Monroe | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 65 min |
| Aug 29, 12:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 12:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 63 min |
| Aug 29, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 63 min |
| Aug 29, 1:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 2:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia and 4 more | 6 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.