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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL

March 30, 2025Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 30, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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: Mar 30, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 30, 2025, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 1280 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 249 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.9

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The text

As transmitted.

373 
WFUS54 KMOB 301800
TORMOB
ALC003-FLC033-301830-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0021.250330T1800Z-250330T1830Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
Tornado Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
100 PM CDT Sun Mar 30 2025

The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a

* Tornado Warning for...
  Central Baldwin County in southwestern Alabama...
  Northwestern Escambia County in northwestern Florida...

* Until 130 PM CDT.

* At 100 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado
  was located 4 miles northeast of Bay Minette, moving northeast at
  15 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 and northwestern Escambia Counties.

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 3086 8772 3093 8778 3103 8762 3102 8761
      3100 8761 3100 8760 3091 8756
TIME...MOT...LOC 1800Z 234DEG 12KT 3091 8771 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...<.75 IN

$$

RD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 30, 9:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	50 min
Mar 30, 9:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	38 min
Mar 30, 9:57 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 30, 10:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Mar 30, 12:09 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		36 min
Mar 30, 12:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 30, 1:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	4 hr
Mar 30, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	54 min
Mar 30, 1:41 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Mar 30, 2:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 30, 2:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 30, 3:43 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	4 hr
Mar 30, 3:51 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MOB		18 hr
Mar 30, 4:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		89 min
Mar 30, 5:03 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		72 min
Mar 30, 5:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	50 hr
Mar 30, 5:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 30, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		84 min
Mar 30, 6:22 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		83 min
Mar 30, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	38 min
Mar 30, 3:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	56 min
Mar 30, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	62 min
Mar 30, 4:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	4 hr
Mar 30, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	56 min
Mar 30, 5:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Santa Rosa	3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.