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Tornado Warning 128, NWS Mobile, AL

September 1, 2008Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2008, 12:51 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 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: Sep 1, 2008, 12:51 PM CDT (17:51 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 2008, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:53 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
Sep 1, 1:05 PM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Mchenry, MS	HAIL REPORTED 1 MILE WEST OF THE WLOX TV TOWER.

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
Sep 1, 6:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 77 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: 196 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 494 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 553 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 011751
TORMOB
MSC131-011830-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0128.080901T1751Z-080901T1830Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1251 PM CDT MON SEP 1 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WIGGINS...

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF
  WLOX TV STATION TOWER...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF WIGGINS...MOVING
  NORTHWEST AT 66 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN STONE COUNTY AT 110 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN MOBILE HOME...EVACUATE IT AND GET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING OR IN AN UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER. IF NO
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER IS AVAILABLE AND A TORNADO IS FAST APPROACHING...
SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW DEPRESSION AND COVER YOUR
HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY BE OBSCURING THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU
WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE
PLACE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3084 8933 3091 8934 3092 8933 3092 8913
      3068 8896 3068 8922 3083 8934
TIME...MOT...LOC 1751Z 146DEG 57KT 3069 8909

$$

PURDY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 1, 12:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Wayne	44 min
Sep 1, 1:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	33 min
Sep 1, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	25 min
Sep 1, 2:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	34 min
Sep 1, 3:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne	3 hr
Sep 1, 4:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene, Wayne	40 min
Sep 1, 6:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne	3 hr

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