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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 29, 2014, 1:35 AM CDT for Butler County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 2014, 1:35 AM CDT (06:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2014, 2:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 1:50 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Greenville, AL | TREES REPORTED DOWN THROUGHOUT BUTLER COUNTY. TREE DOWN ON A DEPUTY CAR. PORCH BLOWN OFF FROM A RESIDENCE. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 1160 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1240 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 9.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
614
WFUS54 KMOB 290635
TORMOB
ALC013-041-290715-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0020.140429T0635Z-140429T0715Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
135 AM CDT TUE APR 29 2014
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
NORTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 215 AM CDT
* AT 132 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 17 MILES WEST OF GREENVILLE...OR 9 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF PINE APPLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RUTLEDGE... PETREY... LUVERNE...
GLENWOOD... I65 AND AL 185... I65 AND AL 106...
I65 AND AL 10... GREENVILLE...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 114 AND 139.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT TUESDAY FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3166 8615 3165 8691 3190 8690 3197 8663
3197 8641 3203 8641 3206 8630 3197 8629
3197 8619 3196 8618 3189 8617 3180 8620
3179 8615 3178 8614
TIME...MOT...LOC 0635Z 261DEG 34KT 3177 8686
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 10:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 63 min |
| Apr 28, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 10:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 11:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 11:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 66 min |
| Apr 29, 12:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 67 min |
| Apr 29, 1:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 1:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 57 min |
| Apr 29, 1:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox | 54 min |
| Apr 29, 1:49 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 41 min | |
| Apr 29, 2:00 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 2:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 2:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 2:27 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Apr 29, 2:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 62 min |
| Apr 29, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 90 min |
| Apr 29, 3:29 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Apr 29, 4:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:35 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 4 days |
| Apr 29, 4:47 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 118 min | |
| Apr 29, 4:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Apr 29, 6:44 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Apr 29, 8:15 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Apr 29, 10:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Apr 29, 11:41 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 94 min | |
| Apr 29, 12:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 95 min | |
| Apr 29, 12:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Apr 29, 1:33 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Apr 29, 1:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Apr 29, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 34 min |
| Apr 29, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 34 min |
| Apr 29, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 40 min |
| Apr 29, 2:55 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 20 min | |
| Apr 29, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 48 min |
| Apr 29, 3:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Apr 29, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 25 min | |
| Apr 29, 3:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 2 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Apr 29, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 60 min |
| Apr 29, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Apr 29, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 64 min |
| Apr 29, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 55 min | |
| Apr 29, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 27 min | |
| Apr 29, 6:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 12 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.