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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL

February 21, 20025 counties in Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 21, 2002, 9:10 AM CST for 5 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 20 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
Feb 21, 2002, 9:10 AM CST (15:10 UTC)
Expired
Feb 21, 2002, 9:30 AM CST
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 130 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2002-02-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2002-02-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2114 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 211510
TORMOB
MSC039-041-111-131-153-211530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING DRILL...THIS IS A DRILL MESSAGE...REPEAT ONLY A DRILL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
910 AM CST THU FEB 21 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO DRILL FOR...
  GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 930 AM CST

* AT 910 AM CST...NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING OVER SOUTHEAST     
  MISSISSIPPI. THIS IS A DRILL. AT THIS TIME PLEASE PRACTICE         
  YOUR TORNADO SAFETY PROCEDURES. IF THIS WERE AN ACTUAL             
  TORNADO WARNING...YOU SHOULD GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST  
  LEVEL OF YOUR BUILDING. WEAK STRUCTURES OR VEHICLES SHOULD BE      
  ABANDONED FOR SAFE SHELTER. 

  THIS IS A TORNADO DRILL...REPEAT ONLY A DRILL. NO SEVERE WEATHER   
  IS OCCURRING OVER THE AREA.

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.