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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL

February 13, 2007Perry County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 13, 2007, 5:32 AM CST for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 13, 2007, 5:32 AM CST (11:32 UTC)
Expired: Feb 13, 2007, 6:15 AM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Perry County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:34 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
Feb 13, 2:43 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 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 131132
TORMOB
MSC111-131215-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0003.070213T1132Z-070213T1215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
532 AM CST TUE FEB 13 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 615 AM CST

* AT 529 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF
  JANICE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF JANICE BY 540 AM CST
  WINGATE AND NEW AUGUSTA BY 550 AM CST
  KITTRELL AND FERGUSON BY 555 AM CST
  HINTONVILLE BY 600 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 1100 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3107 8930 3093 8917 3105 8890 3136 8888

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 131203
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
603 AM CST TUE FEB 13 2007

MSC111-131215-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-070213T1215Z/
PERRY MS-
603 AM CST TUE FEB 13 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 615 AM CST FOR CENTRAL PERRY
COUNTY...

AT 559 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR FERGUSON...OR 
ABOUT NEAR NEW AUGUSTA...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3130 8907 3095 8910 3100 8892 3135 8888

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 13, 4:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Stone	36 min
Feb 13, 5:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	45 min
Feb 13, 6:15 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	60 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.