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Tornado Warning 87, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 2008, 6:28 AM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 25, 2008, 6:28 AM CDT (11:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Covington County, AL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 1:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 2422 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 251128 TORMOB ALC039-251200- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0087.080825T1128Z-080825T1200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 628 AM CDT MON AUG 25 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 700 AM CDT * AT 625 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 3 MILES EAST OF FLORALA...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF DE FUNIAK SPRINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 36 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY AT 640 AM CDT RURAL EASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY AT 650 AM 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 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 900 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3121 8619 3110 8619 3100 8619 3100 8637 TIME...MOT...LOC 1128Z 206DEG 31KT 3102 8626 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 251152 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 652 AM CDT MON AUG 25 2008 ALC039-251201- /O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0087.000000T0000Z-080825T1200Z/ COVINGTON AL- 651 AM CDT MON AUG 25 2008 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 651 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM WITH TORNADIC POTENTIAL HAS NOW MOVED OUT OF SOUTHEAST COVINGTON COUNTY...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3121 8619 3110 8619 3100 8619 3100 8637 TIME...MOT...LOC 1151Z 206DEG 31KT 3120 8616 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 10:39 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 111 min | |
| Aug 24, 11:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 12:38 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 112 min | |
| Aug 25, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 1:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Monroe | 56 min |
| Aug 25, 1:59 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 min |
| Aug 25, 2:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 18 min |
| Aug 25, 2:40 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 110 min | |
| Aug 25, 3:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe | 20 min |
| Aug 25, 3:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 14 min |
| Aug 25, 4:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 4:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 47 min |
| Aug 25, 4:31 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 104 min | |
| Aug 25, 4:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 47 min |
| Aug 25, 5:07 AM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | MOB | 12 hr | |
| Aug 25, 5:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 40 min |
| Aug 25, 5:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 52 min |
| Aug 25, 5:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 50 min |
| Aug 25, 5:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 6:14 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Aug 25, 6:17 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 118 min | |
| Aug 25, 6:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 43 min |
| Aug 25, 6:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 51 min |
| Aug 25, 6:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 44 min |
| Aug 25, 7:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 51 min |
| Aug 25, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 44 min |
| Aug 25, 8:06 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 114 min | |
| Aug 25, 8:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 9:08 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 16 hr |
| Aug 25, 9:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 41 min |
| Aug 25, 10:04 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 86 min | |
| Aug 25, 10:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 11:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 48 min | |
| Aug 25, 12:08 PM CDT | Coastal Flood Watch | MOB | 15 hr | |
| Aug 25, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 39 min |
| Aug 25, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 1:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 23 min |
| Aug 25, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 44 min |
| Aug 25, 1:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 34 min |
| Aug 25, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 25 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.