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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 7:30 AM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 30 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 29, 2005, 7:30 AM CDT (12:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2005, 8:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:33 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 29, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 291230 TORMOB ALC003-025-053-099-291300- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0040.050829T1230Z-050829T1300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 730 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 800 AM CDT * AT 727 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER I65 AND AL 21...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BOONEVILLE AND JEDDO BY 735 AM CDT MINEOLA BY 740 AM CDT MT PLEASANT AND CHRYSLER BY 745 AM CDT ELISKA BY 750 AM 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 NOON CDT MONDAY FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3105 8756 3115 8739 3150 8763 3135 8786 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 291243 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 743 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 ALC003-025-053-099-291300- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0040.000000T0000Z-050829T1300Z/ ESCAMBIA AL-MONROE AL-CLARKE AL-BALDWIN AL- 743 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 800 AM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL BALDWIN...SOUTHEASTERN CLARKE...SOUTHWESTERN MONROE AND NORTHWESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTIES... AT 742 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MINEOLA...OR ABOUT 24 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONROEVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 55 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ELISKA...MT PLEASANT...CHRYSLER AND HOMEWOOD BY 750 AM CDT GAINESTOWN...CHOCTAW BLUFF AND BARLOW BEND BY 755 AM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT MONDAY FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3105 8756 3115 8739 3150 8763 3135 8786 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 7:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 24 min |
| 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, 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 |
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.