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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 30, 2010, 5:27 AM CST for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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
- Nov 30, 2010, 5:27 AM CST (11:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 30, 2010, 5:51 AM CST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 3:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 946 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 79 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 492 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
523 WFUS54 KMOB 301127 TORMOB ALC129-301200- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0037.101130T1127Z-101130T1200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 527 AM CST TUE NOV 30 2010 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CHATOM... * UNTIL 600 AM CST * AT 525 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHATOM...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STATE LINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CHATOM AROUND 540 AM CST... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER 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 SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3167 8821 3155 8800 3126 8831 3134 8844 TIME...MOT...LOC 1127Z 214DEG 35KT 3133 8834 $$
1 follow-up statement
151 WWUS54 KMOB 301151 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 551 AM CST TUE NOV 30 2010 ALC129-301159- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0037.000000T0000Z-101130T1200Z/ WASHINGTON AL- 551 AM CST TUE NOV 30 2010 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 549 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY. ANOTHER TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY UNTIL 600 AM CST. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3167 8821 3155 8800 3126 8831 3134 8844 TIME...MOT...LOC 1149Z 214DEG 35KT 3151 8820 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 30, 4:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 42 min |
| Nov 30, 4:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 24 min |
| Nov 30, 5:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 36 min |
| Nov 30, 6:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 30 min |
| Nov 30, 6:04 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 26 min |
| Nov 30, 6:24 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 36 min |
| Nov 30, 6:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Nov 30, 6:53 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 37 min |
| Nov 30, 7:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 32 min |
| Nov 30, 7:30 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 30 min |
| Nov 30, 7:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 40 min |
| Nov 30, 7:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Nov 30, 9:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 13 min |
| Nov 30, 9:46 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Nov 30, 10:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 18 min |
| Nov 30, 11:53 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 112 min | |
| Nov 30, 11:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 22 min |
| Nov 30, 1:01 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 20 hr | |
| Nov 30, 1:03 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Nov 30, 1:25 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 95 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.