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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 1, 1992, 8:30 PM CST for George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 1, 1992, 8:30 PM CST (02:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 1, 1992, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County George County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1249 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 020231 TORMOB MSC039-020300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 830 PM CST SUN NOV 1 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 900 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...GEORGE COUNTY AT 825 PM CST MISSISSIPPI EOC REPORTED A TORNADO IN CENTRAL GEORGE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI NEAR HIGHWAY 63. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST...JUST EAST OF LUCEDALE DURING THE NEXT 20 MINUTES. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO xTO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 2:37 PM CST, 5 hours 53 minutes before
MSZ014-013-012200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 235 PM CST SUN NOV 01 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PEARL RIVER...HANCOCK...HARRISON... STONE...JACKSON...GEORGE COUNTIES AND THE ADJOINING GULF WATERS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... AT 230 PM THE MOBILE WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA EXTENDING INTO THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR WAS INDICATING A BROAD AREA OF RAIN AND RAINSHOWERS EXTENDING NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM NEW ORLEANS TO WIGGINS MISSISSIPPI TO MERIDIAN. THIS AREA WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN DETECTED OR REPORTED OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TODAY...THE POTENTIAL STILL EXISTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN DEVELOP IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL TELEVISION AND COMMERCIAL RADIO STATIONS FOR LATER, UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 4:32 PM CST, 3 hours 58 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-012330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 431 PM CST SUN NOV 1 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PEARL RIVER...HANCOCK...HARRISON... STONE...JACKSON AND GEORGE COUNTIES...AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 600 PM CST TODAY... AT 425 PM CST MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA...TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM MERIDAN MISSISSIPPI TO LUCEDALE TO BIXOLI TO THE COAST SOUTH OF NEW ORLEANS. THUNDERSTORM IN THIS AREA WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN INDICATED OR REPORTED IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPP&I. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED NORTH FROM PENSACOLA FLORIDA... ACROSS EXCAMBIA...CONECUH AND MONROE COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 5:35 PM CST, 2 hours 55 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-020030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 535 PM CST SUN NOV 1 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PEARL RIVER...HANCOCK...HARRISON... STONE...JACKSON AND GEORGE COUNTIES AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 600 PM CST TODAY... AT 530 PM CST MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITHIN THE REGION FROM JACKSON MISSISSIPPI TO MONTGOMERY AND MOBILE ALABAMA TO JUST WEST OF BOOTHEVILLE LOUISIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN INDICATED OR REPORTED IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI DURING THE LAST HOUR.
Special weather statement, Nov 1, 6:17 PM CST, 2 hours 13 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-020115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 617 PM CST SUN NOV 1 1992 THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS EXPIRED AT 600 PM. AT 615 PM CST MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE REGION FROM MERIDAN MISSISSIPPI TO MONTGOMERY AND MOBILE ALABAMA TO NEAR THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS INDICATED OR REPORTED DURING THE LAST HOUR.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 1, 7:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Jackson | 67 min |
Nearby
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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.