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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 8:41 AM CDT for George County, Mississippi; Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 64 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, 8:41 AM CDT (13:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2005, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:43 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 288 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 291342 TORMOB ALC097-MSC039-291445- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0044.050829T1341Z-050829T1445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 841 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 945 AM CDT * AT 837 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CEDAR POINT...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 85 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ST ELMO AND IRVINGTON BY 850 AM CDT HUTCHENS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND DEES BY 855 AM CDT TANNER WILLIAMS AND BIG CREEK LAKE DAM BY 900 AM CDT AGRICOLA AND MOVELLA BY 905 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 3023 8817 3032 8799 3099 8834 3083 8876 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 7:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 8:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 11:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 60 min |
| Aug 29, 2:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 6 hr |
| 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, 8:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 34 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 |
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.