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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 17, 2008, 3:51 PM CST for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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
- Feb 17, 2008, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 2008, 4:15 PM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Covington County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 12:32 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 766 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 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 172151 TORMOB ALC039-172215- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0036.080217T2151Z-080217T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 351 PM CST SUN FEB 17 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 415 PM CST * AT 348 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WATKINS BRIDGE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTH OF ANDALUSIA...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTH OF HOWELLS BY 400 PM CST... 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 LARGE DAMAGING HAIL OR DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN MOBILE HOME...EVACUATE IT AND GET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING OR IN AN UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER. IF NO SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER IS AVAILABLE AND A TORNADO IS FAST APPROACHING... SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW DEPRESSION AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3118 8619 3099 8618 3099 8649 3115 8652 TIME...MOT...LOC 2151Z 256DEG 47KT 3110 8637 $$ PURDY
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 172215 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 415 PM CST SUN FEB 17 2008 ALC039-172223- /O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-080217T2215Z/ COVINGTON AL- 415 PM CST SUN FEB 17 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 415 PM CST... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3118 8619 3099 8618 3099 8649 3115 8652 TIME...MOT...LOC 2213Z 256DEG 47KT 3117 8604 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 7:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 45 min |
| Feb 17, 9:48 AM CST | Marine Weather Statement | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Feb 17, 10:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
| Feb 17, 11:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 27 min |
| Feb 17, 11:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 49 min |
| Feb 17, 11:25 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 35 min |
| Feb 17, 11:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 60 min |
| Feb 17, 11:46 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Feb 17, 11:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 59 min |
| Feb 17, 11:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Feb 17, 12:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 61 min |
| Feb 17, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 45 min |
| Feb 17, 12:44 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Feb 17, 12:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 36 min |
| Feb 17, 12:55 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Feb 17, 1:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 63 min |
| Feb 17, 1:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 39 min |
| Feb 17, 1:55 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Feb 17, 2:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 19 min |
| Feb 17, 2:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 31 min |
| Feb 17, 2:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 59 min |
| Feb 17, 2:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 23 min |
| Feb 17, 2:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 36 min |
| Feb 17, 3:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 44 min |
| Feb 17, 3:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 47 min |
| Feb 17, 3:24 PM CST | Marine Weather Statement | MOB | 5 hr | |
| Feb 17, 3:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 50 min |
| Feb 17, 3:59 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 31 min | |
| Feb 17, 4:30 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Feb 17, 5:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 36 min |
| Feb 17, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 52 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.