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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 24, 2020, 1:19 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 56 min. 5 reports 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
- Jun 24, 2020, 1:19 PM CDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2020, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 1:37 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ne Mobile Regional Ai, AL | SEVERAL LARGE TREES SNAPPED NEAR ZEIGLER BLVD AND CODY RD. ANOTHER TREE DOWN NEAR OVERLOOK RD. TRAFFIC SIGNALS DAMAGED. REPORTS AND PICTURES VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. |
| Jun 24, 1:39 PM CDT | TORNADO | 2 Ssw Magnolia Grove Go, AL | A VERY BRIEF, WEAK EF-0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST NORTH OF ZEIGLER BLVD ON DURBIN COURT AND TRACKED NORTHEAST, LIFTING AS IT APPROACHED THE MOBILE FAIRGROUNDS. THE DAMAGE WITH THE TORNADO WAS VERY SPORADIC AND LIGHT, WITH MAINLY BRANCHES OF SOFTWOOD TREES DAMA |
| Jun 24, 1:40 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ese University Of Sou, AL | TREES DOWN IN A FEW SPOTS ALONG OLD SHELL RD. REPORTS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. |
| Jun 24, 1:45 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 W I65 And Us 45, AL | TREES DOWN ON BOTH WOLF RIDGE RD AND FEED MILL RD. REPORTS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA. |
| Jun 24, 1:59 PM CDT | MARINE TSTM WIND 45 | Wallace Tunnel, AL | MESONET STATION EW6967 IN DOWNTOWN MOBILE MEASURED A MARINE THUNDERSTORM WIND GUST OF 45MPH. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1752 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 599 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 8.3
The text
As transmitted.
240
WFUS54 KMOB 241819
TORMOB
ALC003-097-241915-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0053.200624T1819Z-200624T1915Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
119 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2020
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Central Mobile County in southwestern Alabama...
West central Baldwin County in southwestern Alabama...
* Until 215 PM CDT.
* At 119 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
was located over Big Point, or 10 miles northeast of Escatawpa,
moving northeast at 45 mph.
HAZARD...Tornado.
SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation.
IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles will occur. Tree
damage is likely.
* This dangerous storm will be near...
Tanner Williams around 130 PM CDT.
Mobile Regional Airport around 135 PM CDT.
Semmes around 140 PM CDT.
Midtown Mobile around 145 PM CDT.
Downtown Mobile, Prichard, Chickasaw, I65 And AL 158 and I65 And
I165 around 150 PM CDT.
Saraland and Satsuma around 155 PM CDT.
Creola and Axis around 200 PM CDT.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest
floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If you are outdoors, in a
mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter
and protect yourself from flying debris.
&&
LAT...LON 3076 8841 3104 8795 3075 8780 3054 8840
TIME...MOT...LOC 1819Z 237DEG 41KT 3061 8846
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Choctaw | 94 min |
| Jun 23, 8:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 11:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 11 min |
| Jun 24, 12:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 12:46 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Jun 24, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 1:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Monroe | 41 min |
| Jun 24, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 56 min |
| Jun 24, 1:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 2:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 2:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 95 min | |
| Jun 24, 2:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 2:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Butler | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 2:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe, Wilcox | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Jun 24, 3:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 87 min | |
| Jun 24, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 4:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 42 min |
| Jun 24, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Covington, Crenshaw | 53 min |
| Jun 24, 5:51 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 84 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.