Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 43, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2009, 5:02 AM CDT for Monroe 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
- May 4, 2009, 5:02 AM CDT (10:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2009, 5:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:04 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 822 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 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 041002
TORMOB
ALC099-041030-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0043.090504T1002Z-090504T1030Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
502 AM CDT MON MAY 4 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 530 AM CDT
* AT 500 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF
HOMEWOOD...OR ABOUT 22 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONROEVILLE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
MEGARGEL BY 525 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.
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY BE OBSCURING THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE
PLACE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3143 8725 3141 8727 3141 8729 3135 8735
3133 8736 3128 8762 3135 8767 3153 8731
TIME...MOT...LOC 1002Z 246DEG 24KT 3131 8759
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 3:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 45 min |
| May 4, 3:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 65 min |
| May 4, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 51 min |
| May 4, 4:13 AM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 10 hr | |
| May 4, 4:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 61 min |
| May 4, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 55 min |
| May 4, 5:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 5:19 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Washington | 41 min |
| May 4, 6:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 53 min |
| May 4, 6:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Monroe | 16 min |
| May 4, 6:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| May 4, 6:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| May 4, 7:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox | 60 min |
| May 4, 8:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 4 hr |
| May 4, 9:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 44 min |
| May 4, 9:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 32 min |
| May 4, 9:20 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Monroe | 3 hr |
| May 4, 10:37 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| May 4, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 41 min | |
| May 4, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 39 min |
| May 4, 11:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 3 hr |
| May 4, 12:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 39 min | |
| May 4, 1:26 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:36 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 min | |
| May 4, 3:52 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 38 min | |
| May 4, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| May 4, 5:27 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 48 min | |
| May 4, 6:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 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.