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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 12:51 PM CDT for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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, 12:51 PM CDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2005, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 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), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 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, 10:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 234 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 291751 TORMOB ALC053-291830- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0050.050829T1751Z-050829T1830Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1251 PM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1247 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSAKA...AND MOVING NORTH AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FOSHEE AND OSAKA BY 100 PM CDT I65 AND AL 113 BY 105 PM CDT WALLACE AND BARNETT CROSSROADS BY 110 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 700 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3104 8741 3104 8717 3124 8712 3124 8738 $$
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, 8:26 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, 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.