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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL

April 26, 2007Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2007, 9:59 AM CDT for Baldwin 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: Apr 26, 2007, 9:59 AM CDT (14:59 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2007, 10:30 AM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:59 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 nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -40 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 261459
TORMOB
ALC003-261530-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0031.070426T1459Z-070426T1530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
959 AM CDT THU APR 26 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 1030 AM CDT

* AT 955 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LOXLEY...OR
  ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF DOWNTOWN MOBILE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  GATESWOOD BY 1020 AM CDT...

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

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 3069 8790 3055 8777 3071 8749 3087 8764

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 261516
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1016 AM CDT THU APR 26 2007

ALC003-261530-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-070426T1530Z/
BALDWIN AL-
1016 AM CDT THU APR 26 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 AM CDT FOR CENTRAL
BALDWIN COUNTY...

AT 1012 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER CENTRAL 
BALDWIN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BAY MINETTE...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL EASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY THROUGH 1030 AM CDT

LAT...LON 3078 8773 3070 8766 3075 8752 3086 8763

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 10:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	64 min
Apr 26, 10:40 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	35 min
Apr 26, 11:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	46 min
Apr 26, 11:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler	31 min
Apr 26, 11:44 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	46 min
Apr 26, 12:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	16 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.