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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 9, 2024, 4:25 AM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 19 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
- Jan 9, 2024, 4:25 AM CST (10:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2024, 4:44 AM CST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 4:33 AM CST | TORNADO | 2 Sw Steelwood, AL | An EF1 tornado touched down within a neighborhood off of US Highway 31 tracking eastward over a majority of Cambron Trail. The tornado likely started in a wooded area to the west of Cambron Trail and just east of Wildflower Trail. On Wildflower Trail, there we |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 8:42 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1723 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted.
759
WFUS54 KMOB 091025
TORMOB
ALC003-091100-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0007.240109T1025Z-240109T1100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
425 AM CST Tue Jan 9 2024
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Tornado Warning for...
Central Baldwin County in southwestern Alabama...
* Until 500 AM CST.
* At 424 AM CST, severe thunderstorms capable of producing both
tornadoes and extensive straight line wind damage were located over
Spanish Fort, moving east 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 tornadic thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of
central Baldwin County.
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 3061 8796 3067 8798 3079 8757 3076 8754
3074 8753 3073 8752 3066 8750
TIME...MOT...LOC 1024Z 256DEG 40KT 3065 8793
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN
$$
Black1 follow-up statement
116
WWUS54 KMOB 091044
SVSMOB
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
444 AM CST Tue Jan 9 2024
ALC003-091054-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-240109T1100Z/
Baldwin AL-
444 AM CST Tue Jan 9 2024
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
The tornado threat has diminished and the Tornado Warning has been
cancelled. However, damaging winds remain likely and a Severe
Thunderstorm Warning remains in effect for the area. However, gusty
winds are still possible with this thunderstorm.
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until 700 AM CST for southwestern
Alabama...and northwestern Florida.
LAT...LON 3061 8796 3067 8798 3079 8757 3076 8754
3074 8753 3073 8752 3066 8750
TIME...MOT...LOC 1042Z 256DEG 40KT 3070 8768
$$
BlackThe office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 6:33 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Mobile | 27 min |
| Jan 8, 7:00 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin | 30 min |
| Jan 8, 11:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 34 min |
| Jan 8, 11:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 40 min |
| Jan 9, 12:09 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 12:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 38 min |
| Jan 9, 12:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 44 min |
| Jan 9, 12:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 37 min |
| Jan 9, 12:55 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 50 min |
| Jan 9, 1:00 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 3 hr |
| Jan 9, 1:18 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 42 min | |
| Jan 9, 1:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 28 min |
| Jan 9, 1:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 36 min |
| Jan 9, 1:58 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 47 min | |
| Jan 9, 2:19 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Jan 9, 2:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 47 min |
| Jan 9, 3:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Washington | 47 min |
| Jan 9, 3:33 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 42 min | |
| Jan 9, 3:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 28 min |
| Jan 9, 3:59 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 20 min |
| Jan 9, 4:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Washington | 60 min |
| Jan 9, 4:04 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Jan 9, 4:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 16 min |
| Jan 9, 4:14 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Jan 9, 4:17 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Jan 9, 4:20 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 41 min | |
| Jan 9, 4:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Escambia and 2 more | 58 min |
| Jan 9, 4:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 24 min |
| Jan 9, 4:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 10 min |
| Jan 9, 4:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia | 57 min |
| Jan 9, 4:58 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 81 min | |
| Jan 9, 5:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 64 min |
| Jan 9, 6:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 49 min |
| Jan 9, 6:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 25 min |
| Jan 9, 6:33 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Jan 9, 6:57 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 29 min | |
| Jan 9, 1:23 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 5 days |
| Jan 9, 1:24 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas, Monroe, Wilcox | 69 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:04 PM CST | High Surf Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 17 hr |
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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.