1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 24, 7:45 AM CST, 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 745 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 QUICK UPDATE TO TAKE MS COUNTIES OUT OF TOR WATCH AND TO TAKE WASHINGTON...CLARKE...MONROE AND WILCOX COUNTIES OUT OF WATCH. WILL ALSO REMOVE FLOOD WATCH ACROSS AREA. SQUALL LINE IS MOVING RAPIDLY EAST. && .MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GMZ630-650-670. FL...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GMZ655-675. MS...NONE. && 01
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 655 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-251200- BUTLER AL-CHOCTAW AL-CLARKE AL-COASTAL ESCAMBIA FL- COASTAL OKALOOSA FL-COASTAL SANTA ROSA FL-CONECUH AL-COVINGTON AL- CRENSHAW AL-ESCAMBIA AL-GEORGE MS-GREENE MS-INLAND ESCAMBIA FL- INLAND OKALOOSA FL-INLAND SANTA ROSA FL-LOWER BALDWIN AL- LOWER MOBILE AL-MONROE AL-PERRY MS-STONE MS-UPPER BALDWIN AL- UPPER MOBILE AL-WASHINGTON AL-WAYNE MS-WILCOX AL- 655 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE EXTREME WESTERN PORTION OF THE FLORIDA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE AND POSSIBLY TORNADIC WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CWA THIS MORNING. THE LINE OF STORMS WILL BE EAST OF I-65 BY 900 AM AND SHOULD BE FROM AN ANDALUSIA TO DESTIN LINE AROUND NOON. LINGERING SHOWERS WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THEN THE RAIN SHOULD END ACROSS THE WHOLE AREA BY MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... GENERAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. AT THIS TIME NONE OF THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. A FROST OR LIGHT FREEZE CAN BE EXPECTED OVER INTERIOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA ON FRIDAY MORNING AS TEMPERATURES FALL INTO THE LOWER 30S. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS HAVE BEEN ACTIVATED BUT SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO BACK TO NORMAL OPERATIONS BY LATE AFTERNOON.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 741 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 ALZ052>055-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-241400- CLARKE-GEORGE-GREENE-MONROE-PERRY-STONE-WASHINGTON-WAYNE-WILCOX- 741 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004 THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM TORNADO WATCH 897... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...PERRY...GREENE...STONE AND GEORGE. IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...WASHINGTON...CLARKE...WILCOX AND MONROE COUNTIES. TORNADO WATCH 897 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOBILE...BALDWIN... BUTLER...CRENSHAW...CONECUH...ESCAMBIA AND COVINGTON COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND ESCAMBIA...SANTA ROSA AND OKALOOSA COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA. THROUGH 1100 AM.
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 37 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:53 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
The large waterspout that moved across Mobile Bay moved ashore near Fairhope and quickly dissipated. No damage from the weak tornado was found.
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