Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2007, 10:40 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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, 10:40 AM CDT (15:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 2007, 11:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 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), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 261540 TORMOB ALC003-261615- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0032.070426T1540Z-070426T1615Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1040 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 1115 AM CDT * AT 1037 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MAGNOLIA SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE AROUND... SUMMERDALE BY 1050 AM CDT... ELSANOR BY 1100 AM CDT... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SEMINOLE BY 1110 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. 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 3042 8781 3038 8777 3053 8744 3070 8757 $$
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KMOB 261554
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1053 AM CDT THU APR 26 2007
ALC003-261615-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-070426T1615Z/
BALDWIN AL-
1053 AM CDT THU APR 26 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 AM CDT FOR EAST
CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY...
AT 1050 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR
SUMMERDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ELSANOR
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
DEVELOP AT ANY TIME. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY
OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 3049 8772 3046 8768 3053 8744 3066 8743
3070 8757
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 9:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 31 min |
| Apr 26, 10:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 64 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 |
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.