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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL

October 25, 1997Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 4:12 PM CDT for Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 63 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: Oct 25, 1997, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 25, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 2541 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 12.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 252114 RRA
TORMOB
MSC111-131-252215-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
412 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...PERRY COUNTY...STONE COUNTY
 
AT 414 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE TWO
TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS AFFECTING STONE AND PERRY COUNTIES OF
SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE FIRST STORM...NOW BETWEEN JANICE AND
BARBARA,MS...WILL CONTINUE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 28 MPH AND WILL APPROACH
THOMPSON HILL THROUGH 515 PM CDT.
 
EVEN THOUGH THE FIRST STORM HAS EXITED STONE COUNTY TO THE NORTH...THE
NWS IS MONITORING A SECOND STORM THAT MAY CONTAIN A POSSIBLE TORNAO AND
WILL BE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST OUT OF HARRISON COUNTY AND INTO
SOUTHEAST STONE COUNTY NEAR BEATRICE,MS BY 515 PM CDT.
 
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.
 
 
 
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 25, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry, Stone	67 min
Oct 25, 3:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	67 min
Oct 25, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	George, Greene	64 min
Oct 25, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	George	49 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.