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Tornado Warning 134, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2008, 1:57 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 1, 2008, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2008, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMOB 011857
TORMOB
MSC153-011930-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0134.080901T1857Z-080901T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
157 PM CDT MON SEP 1 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO...
* UNTIL 230 PM CDT
* AT 157 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF BATTLES...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF CHATOM...MOVING
NORTHWEST AT 42 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
BUCKATUNNA BY 205 PM CDT...
ROBINSON JUNCTION AND CHICORA BY 210 PM CDT...
WINCHESTER BY 215 PM CDT...
WAYNESBORO BY 220 PM CDT...
WOODWARDS BY 225 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 3173 8885 3183 8867 3164 8847 3144 8845
3144 8857
TIME...MOT...LOC 1857Z 144DEG 36KT 3147 8846
$$
PURDYThe 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, 12:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Stone | 39 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.