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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL

March 25, 1994George County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 25, 1994, 1:08 AM CST for George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 1994, 1:08 AM CST (07:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1994, 2:00 AM CST
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County George County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 2299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 250707 RRA
TORMOB
MSC039-250800-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
108 AM CST FRI MAR 25 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 AM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...GEORGE COUNTY
 
AT 106 AM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM OVER
SOUTHWEST PERRY COUNTY MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH TOWARDS
NORTHWEST GEORGE COUNTY. THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE AREAS OF BENNDALE
WITHIN THE NEXT 10 MINUTES AND MOVE RAPIDLY INTO CENTRAL GEORGE COUNTY
TO NEAR BASIN AND AGRICOLA OVER THE NEXT HALF HOUR.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 25, 12:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Pearl River	44 min
Mar 25, 12:45 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	35 min
Mar 25, 1:01 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Stone	19 min
Mar 25, 1:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Hancock, Pearl River	64 min
Mar 25, 2:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Harrison	51 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.