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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 8:26 AM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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, 8:26 AM CDT (13:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2005, 9:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:27 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 227 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 291326
TORMOB
ALC053-291400-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0042.050829T1326Z-050829T1400Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
826 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 900 AM CDT
* AT 820 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF ROBERTS...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH.
* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BREWTON AND KIRKLAND BY 835 AM CDT
APPLETON AND WALLACE BY 845 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 3104 8683 3103 8706 3119 8739 3119 8732
3120 8731 3120 8725 3122 8723 3122 8717
3125 8697
$$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, 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, 8:41 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.