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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL

January 5, 2007Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jan 5, 2007, 12:30 AM CST for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 15 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2007, 12:30 AM CST (06:30 UTC)
Expired: Jan 5, 2007, 12:45 AM CST
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:32 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
Jan 5, 12:40 AM CST	TORNADO	Wiggins, MS	ROOF DAMAGE TO TRAIN DEPOT AND OTHER COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IN WIGGINS. ONE HOUSE WITH ROOF DAMAGE IN WIGGINS ALSO.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 4, 8:47 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 478 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 236 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 050631
TORMOB
MSC131-050645-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0001.070105T0630Z-070105T0645Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1230 AM CST FRI JAN 5 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1245 AM CST

* AT 1228 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF
  PERKINSTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WIGGINS BY 1235 AM CST
  WHITES CROSSING BY 1245 AM CST

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...ABANDON VEHICLES AND
MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER. MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. COVER YOUR BODY WITH BLANKETS OR PILLOWS.

IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CST FRIDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3079 8930 3071 8924 3091 8888 3092 8917

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.