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Tornado Warning 46, NWS Mobile, AL

August 29, 20054 counties in Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 9:53 AM CDT for 4 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 2 hr. 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, 9:53 AM CDT (14:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2005, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:54 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 29, 2:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 291458
TORMOB
MSC039-041-111-131-291700-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0046.050829T1453Z-050829T1700Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1000 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

TORNADO WARNING FOR... THE EYEWALL OF HURRICANE KATRINA FOR...* 

  GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1200 NOON CDT

* THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* AT 1000 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
THE LEADING EDGE OF THE HURRICANE KATRINA EYEWALL OVER SOUTHERN 
PORTIONS OF STONE AND GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST 
MISSISSIPPI...MOVING NORTHWARD 14 MPH.

* THE ONSET OF DESTRUCTIVE WINDS WITH GUSTS OF 100 TO 120 MPH WILL 
BEGIN SOON. THESE DESTRUCTIVE WINDS WILL PRODUCE WIND DAMAGE SIMILAR 
TO A TORNADO. SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN 
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS 
AND REMAIN IN YOUR SAFE SHELTER UNTIL THE EYEWALL PASSES. A TORNADO 
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT MONDAY FOR SOUTHWESTERN 
ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

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 3070 8928 3078 8847 3140 8848 3139 8908

$$

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, 8:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	George	64 min
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

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2005 Every tornado warning in 2005 Tornadoes in 2005

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.