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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL

January 10, 2008Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 10, 2008, 9:34 PM CST for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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: Jan 10, 2008, 9:34 PM CST (03:34 UTC)
Expired: Jan 10, 2008, 10:00 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Crenshaw County, AL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 10, 5:16 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 297 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 110334
TORMOB
ALC041-110400-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0010.080111T0334Z-080111T0400Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
934 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 1000 PM CST

* AT 931 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SAVILLE...
  OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUVERNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BRADLEYTON AND PETREY BY 940 PM CST...

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FRIDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3196 8616 3184 8617 3182 8618 3180 8618
      3174 8637 3191 8645 3200 8622 3199 8620
TIME...MOT...LOC 0334Z 247DEG 38KT 3186 8631

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 10, 6:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	28 min
Jan 10, 6:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Monroe	44 min
Jan 10, 7:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	13 min
Jan 10, 7:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	26 min
Jan 10, 7:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe	47 min
Jan 10, 8:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh	31 min
Jan 10, 9:28 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		47 min
Jan 11, 1:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	37 min
Jan 11, 1:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	17 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.