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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Mobile, AL

October 25, 1997George County, Greene County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 4:26 PM CDT for George County, Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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: Oct 25, 1997, 4:26 PM CDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties George County, MS, Greene County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 25, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Agricola, MS	A mesocyclone intermittently produced a weak tornado as the storm tracked northeast across George county. The tornado first briefly touched down along River Road near the Barton community where trees were blown down. The tornado touched down again near Grai
Oct 25, 5:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Leaf, MS	Trees and power lines were blown down in the Leaf community.

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 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 252128 RRA
TORMOB
MSC039-041-252230-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
426 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...GEORGE COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY
 
AT 424 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO MOVING TO
THE BORDER REGION OF NORTHWEST GEORGE AND SOUTHWEST GREENE COUNTY. THIS
STORM WILL THEN MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST GREENE COUNTY...ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH 
LEAKESVILLE,MS BY 5 PM CDT.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF S&TURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.

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, 4:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry, Stone	63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.