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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL

February 19, 1996Perry County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 19, 1996, 2:26 PM CST for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Feb 19, 1996, 2:26 PM CST (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Feb 19, 1996, 3:15 PM CST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Perry County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 19, 2:35 PM CST	Tornado F1	New Augusta, MS

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 123 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 748 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 218 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 192026
TORMOB
MSC111-192115-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
226 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...PERRY COUNTY
 
AT 225 PM CDT MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN
SOUTHERN FORREST COUNTY NEAR BROOKLYN. THE STORMS CONTAINING THIS
POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. THIS STORM
WILL PASS BETWEEN OAK GROVE AND NEW AUGUSTA.
 
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
Feb 19, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	45 min
Feb 19, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	54 min
Feb 19, 2:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Stone	49 min
Feb 19, 3:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	61 min
Feb 19, 5:48 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	George	3 hr

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.