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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL

March 6, 1996Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 6, 1996, 6:48 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 6, 1996, 6:48 PM CST (00:48 UTC)
Expired
Mar 6, 1996, 7:45 PM CST
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-03-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 971 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 1996-03-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 145 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
971 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
5.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 070050 COR
TORMOB
MSC153-070145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED FOR TEXT TYPO...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
648 PM CST WED MAR 6 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

   ...WAYNE COUNTY

AT 645 PM...MOBILE DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADIC
THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH THE NORTHERN SECTIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY.
THIS STORM WILL MOVE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL PASS ACROSS
HIGHWAY 45 BETWEEN HIWANNEE AND WAYNESBORO.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 7, 1:28 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWayne47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.