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Tornado Warning 129, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2008, 12:52 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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 1, 2008, 12:52 PM CDT (17:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2008, 1:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 6:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 494 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 553 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 011752 TORMOB ALC003-097-011830- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0129.080901T1752Z-080901T1830Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1252 PM CDT MON SEP 1 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BAY MINETTE... NORTHEASTERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 130 PM CDT * AT 1248 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTH OF ROSINTON...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTH OF BAY MINETTE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... STAPLETON AND STEELWOOD BY 105 PM CDT... WHITEHOUSE FORKS BY 110 PM CDT... CROSSROADS BY 115 PM CDT... CARPENTER BY 120 PM CDT... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR A ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. IF POSSIBLE...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3053 8777 3101 8822 3119 8785 3062 8758 TIME...MOT...LOC 1752Z 151DEG 35KT 3062 8772 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 2:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 47 min | |
| Sep 1, 2:51 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 39 min | |
| Sep 1, 3:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 60 min |
| Sep 1, 3:28 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Sep 1, 3:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Sep 1, 4:21 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Sep 1, 4:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 48 min | |
| Sep 1, 4:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| Sep 1, 4:48 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 42 min | |
| Sep 1, 5:23 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 97 min | |
| Sep 1, 5:25 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 50 min |
| Sep 1, 5:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 59 min |
| Sep 1, 5:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 59 min |
| Sep 1, 6:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 39 min |
| Sep 1, 6:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 62 min |
| Sep 1, 6:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 min |
| Sep 1, 6:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 41 min |
| Sep 1, 7:01 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 44 min |
| Sep 1, 7:07 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 40 min |
| Sep 1, 7:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 50 min |
| Sep 1, 8:12 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 63 min |
| Sep 1, 8:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 61 min |
| Sep 1, 8:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 51 min |
| Sep 1, 8:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 43 min |
| Sep 1, 8:38 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 52 min |
| Sep 1, 8:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 38 min |
| Sep 1, 8:49 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 27 min |
| Sep 1, 11:35 AM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | MOB | 22 hr | |
| Sep 1, 11:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 9 min |
| Sep 1, 11:45 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 34 hr |
| Sep 1, 12:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 24 min |
| Sep 1, 12:25 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 hr |
| Sep 1, 12:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Sep 1, 12:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 44 min |
| Sep 1, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 40 min |
| Sep 1, 12:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 33 min |
| Sep 1, 1:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 28 min |
| Sep 1, 1:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 49 min |
| Sep 1, 1:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 21 min |
| Sep 1, 1:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 42 min | |
| Sep 1, 2:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 40 min |
| Sep 1, 2:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 25 min |
| Sep 1, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 42 min |
| Sep 1, 3:11 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| Sep 1, 3:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 25 min | |
| Sep 1, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 22 min |
| Sep 1, 4:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 40 min |
| Sep 1, 4:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 52 min |
| Sep 1, 6:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Choctaw, Mobile, Washington | 3 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.