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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL

January 10, 2008Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 10, 2008, 6:02 PM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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, 6:02 PM CST (00:02 UTC)
Expired: Jan 10, 2008, 6:30 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Mobile County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 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, 11:33 AM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1040 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 704 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 110002
TORMOB
ALC097-110030-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0007.080111T0002Z-080111T0030Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 630 PM CST

* AT 558 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR          
  GULFCREST... AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PINEOLA BY 610 PM CST...
  CHASTANG AND 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BUCKS BY 615 PM CST...
  MOUNT VERNON AND CHASTANG BY 620 PM CST...
  FORT STODDARD AND CALVERT BY 625 PM CST...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
NICKEL-SIZED SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3111 8796 3110 8796 3101 8796 3092 8824
      3098 8837 3108 8834 3116 8825 3116 8795
TIME...MOT...LOC 0002Z 244DEG 33KT 3104 8821

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 110017
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
616 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

ALC097-110030-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080111T0030Z/
MOBILE AL-
616 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN MOBILE COUNTY...

AT 612 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PINEOLA 
AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  FORT STODDARD AND CALVERT BY 625 PM CST...

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3111 8796 3110 8796 3101 8796 3098 8823
      3106 8824 3113 8821 3116 8795
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 246DEG 32KT 3108 8808

$$

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 110037
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
635 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

ALC097-110045-
/O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-080111T0030Z/
MOBILE AL-
635 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MOBILE COUNTY WAS ALLOWED TO 
EXPIRE AT 630 PM CST...

THE POTENTIAL TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM WAS JUST WEST OF 
CALVERT OVER RURAL NORTHEASTERN MOBILE COUNTY. THE CIRCULATION HAS 
SINCE WEAKENED BUT THIS THUNDERSTORM WARRANTS CLOSE MONITORING AS IT 
MOVES FURTHER NORTHEASTWARD THROUGH 730 PM.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3111 8796 3110 8796 3101 8796 3098 8823
      3106 8824 3113 8821 3116 8795
TIME...MOT...LOC 0017Z 180DEG 0KT 3107 8812

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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 10, 9:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	26 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

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.