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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL

February 12, 2008Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 12, 2008, 5:13 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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, 5:13 PM CST (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Feb 12, 2008, 5:45 PM CST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 12, 12:34 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 122313
TORMOB
ALC003-122345-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0021.080212T2313Z-080212T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
513 PM CST TUE FEB 12 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 545 PM CST

* AT 509 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF
  PALMETTO BEACH...OR ABOUT 7 MILES EAST OF DAUPHIN ISLAND...MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PALMETTO BEACH BY 520 PM CST...
  GASQUE BY 525 PM CST...
  BON SECOUR BY 530 PM CST...
  OAK BY 535 PM CST...
  ROMAR BEACH AND 8 MILES SOUTH OF MIFLIN BY 540 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 3026 8799 3029 8795 3026 8786 3029 8778
      3035 8785 3036 8785 3043 8761 3025 8758
      3021 8779 3021 8800
TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 268DEG 37KT 3025 8794

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 12, 2:10 PM CST	Marine Weather Statement	MOB		3 hr
Feb 12, 3:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	49 min
Feb 12, 3:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	65 min
Feb 12, 3:36 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Washington	39 min
Feb 12, 3:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Escambia	50 min
Feb 12, 3:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	62 min
Feb 12, 4:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington	55 min
Feb 12, 4:21 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		54 min
Feb 12, 4:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	57 min
Feb 12, 4:55 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile	65 min
Feb 12, 4:56 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		49 min
Feb 12, 5:16 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		29 min
Feb 12, 5:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia	55 min
Feb 12, 5:38 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		97 min

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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.