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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 12, 2008, 3:20 PM CST for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 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 12, 2008, 3:20 PM CST (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2008, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Greene County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 12:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 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 122121 TORMOB MSC041-122145- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0018.080212T2120Z-080212T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 320 PM CST TUE FEB 12 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEAKESVILLE... * UNTIL 345 PM CST * AT 316 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF AVERA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES EAST OF NEW AUGUSTA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... AVERA BY 325 PM CST... JONATHAN BY 335 PM CST... LEAKESVILLE BY 340 PM CST... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROUNSAVILLE BY 345 PM CST... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR A ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. IF POSSIBLE...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL OR DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3140 8845 3112 8843 3119 8883 3129 8882 TIME...MOT...LOC 2120Z 270DEG 32KT 3124 8878 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 12, 2:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 57 min |
| Feb 12, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 43 min |
| Feb 12, 2:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 36 min |
| Feb 12, 3:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 65 min |
| Feb 12, 3:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 39 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.