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Tornado Warning 55, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 2005, 5:59 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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
- Sep 26, 2005, 5:59 AM CDT (10:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2005, 6:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 1430 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 261059 TORMOB ALC003-053-261130- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0055.050926T1059Z-050926T1130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 559 AM CDT MON SEP 26 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 630 AM CDT * AT 556 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER LATHAM... AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LATHAM BY 605 AM CDT VAUGHN BY 615 AM CDT RABUN BY 630 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3119 8793 3101 8795 3096 8755 3118 8753 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 5:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Monroe | 28 min |
| Sep 26, 6:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Sep 26, 11:02 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 88 min | |
| Sep 26, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 30 min |
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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.