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Tornado Warning 51, NWS Mobile, AL

August 29, 2005Conecuh County, Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 1:27 PM CDT for Conecuh County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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, 1:27 PM CDT (18:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2005, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Conecuh County, AL, Monroe County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 10:25 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 291826
TORMOB
ALC035-099-291930-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0051.050829T1827Z-050829T1930Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 120 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF RANGE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 60 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WEST MONROEVILLE AND MEXIA BY 135 PM CDT
  MONROEVILLE AND FOUNTAIN BY 140 PM CDT
  KEITH AND TUNNEL SPRINGS BY 145 PM CDT
  RIVER RIDGE AND FRANKLIN BY 150 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 3131 8748 3131 8720 3178 8718 3177 8747

$$

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, 12:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	39 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.