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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL

October 25, 2010Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 2010, 6:03 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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: Oct 25, 2010, 6:03 AM CDT (11:03 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 2010, 6:30 AM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:03 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 nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 1851 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 6.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

580 
WFUS54 KMOB 251103
TORMOB
ALC003-251130-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0029.101025T1103Z-101025T1130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
603 AM CDT MON OCT 25 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SPANISH FORT...

* UNTIL 630 AM CDT

* AT 602 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SPANISH
  FORT...OR NEAR JACKSON OAK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  STEELWOOD...PINE HAVEN AND STAPLETON AROUND 620 AM CDT...
  VANGORDON AROUND 625 AM CDT...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 32 AND 49.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3064 8793 3066 8794 3066 8796 3067 8799
      3076 8800 3078 8799 3083 8769 3064 8762
      3060 8792
TIME...MOT...LOC 1103Z 261DEG 18KT 3070 8788

$$

1 follow-up statement

789 
WWUS54 KMOB 251114
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
614 AM CDT MON OCT 25 2010

ALC003-251130-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-101025T1130Z/
BALDWIN AL-
614 AM CDT MON OCT 25 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 AM CDT FOR CENTRAL
BALDWIN COUNTY...

AT 612 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS NEAR MALBIS...OR ABOUT NEAR SPANISH FORT...MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  STEELWOOD...PINE HAVEN AND STAPLETON AROUND 620 AM CDT...
  VANGORDON AROUND 625 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.

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...OR LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3065 8786 3070 8787 3077 8785 3081 8768
      3065 8762
TIME...MOT...LOC 1114Z 263DEG 18KT 3070 8783

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	60 min
Oct 24, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		64 min
Oct 24, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	45 min
Oct 24, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	43 min
Oct 24, 9:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	44 min
Oct 24, 10:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	39 min
Oct 24, 11:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington, Escambia	45 min
Oct 24, 11:39 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		51 min
Oct 24, 11:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	38 min
Oct 25, 3:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	41 min
Oct 25, 4:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Washington	23 min
Oct 25, 5:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	60 min
Oct 25, 5:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	40 min
Oct 25, 5:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	25 min
Oct 25, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	46 min
Oct 25, 6:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe	2 hr
Oct 25, 6:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	32 min
Oct 25, 6:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	36 min
Oct 25, 7:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	59 min
Oct 25, 7:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe	54 min
Oct 25, 8:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia	2 min
Oct 25, 8:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	42 min
Oct 25, 1:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia	39 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.