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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Mobile, AL

October 25, 1997George County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 25, 1997, 5:26 PM CDT for George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 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, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired: Oct 25, 1997, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County George County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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, 10.4 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: 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 252228 RRA
TORMOB
MSC039-252315-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
526 PM CDT SAT OCT 25 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...GEORGE COUNTY
 
AT 522 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INFDICATED A TORNADO PRODUCING
THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN VESTRY AND MOVELLA MS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
EAST-NORTHEAST AT 28 MPH AND IT WILL PASS NEAR AGRICOLA AT 535 PM CDT
AND NEAR THE GEORGE COUNTY MS-MOBILE AL BORDER BY 550 PM CDT. THIS STORM
WILL THEN PROCEED INTO NORTHWEST MOBILE COUNTY AL AND A TORNADO WARNING
MAY BE REQUIRED.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS..6.
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, 4:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	George, Greene	64 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.