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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Mobile, AL

March 10, 2010Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2010, 9:40 PM CST for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 50 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: Mar 10, 2010, 9:40 PM CST (03:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2010, 10:30 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Crenshaw County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -265 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 497 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 544 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.3

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The text

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

275 
WFUS54 KMOB 110340
TORMOB
ALC041-110430-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0006.100311T0340Z-100311T0430Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
940 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LUVERNE...

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 936 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  RUTLEDGE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUVERNE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LUVERNE BY 1000 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.

LAT...LON 3165 8615 3162 8618 3158 8643 3165 8646
      3190 8618 3189 8617 3188 8618 3184 8617
      3181 8620 3179 8614 3167 8614
TIME...MOT...LOC 0340Z 240DEG 24KT 3164 8638

$$

1 follow-up statement

327 
WWUS54 KMOB 110405
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1005 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010

ALC041-110430-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-100311T0430Z/
CRENSHAW AL-
1005 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CST FOR EAST
CENTRAL CRENSHAW COUNTY...

AT 1004 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  A NEW 
UPDRAFT WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS NEAR LIVE OAK...OR ABOUT NEAR 
LUVERNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LIVE OAK AND PATSBURG BY 1010 PM CST...
  PETREY BY 1015 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.

LAT...LON 3165 8615 3162 8618 3165 8631 3174 8634
      3190 8618 3189 8617 3188 8618 3184 8617
      3181 8620 3179 8614 3167 8614
TIME...MOT...LOC 0405Z 222DEG 28KT 3178 8627

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 10, 6:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Washington	44 min
Mar 10, 6:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	41 min
Mar 10, 6:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	20 min
Mar 10, 7:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	45 min
Mar 10, 7:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	62 min
Mar 10, 7:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw, Clarke, Washington	31 min
Mar 10, 7:51 PM CST	River Flood Warning	MOB	Dallas, Monroe, Wilcox	8 days
Mar 10, 8:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	32 min
Mar 10, 9:02 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	58 min
Mar 10, 9:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	55 min
Mar 10, 9:46 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		119 min
Mar 10, 9:48 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	30 min
Mar 10, 11:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw	2 hr
Mar 11, 12:11 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		64 min
Mar 11, 12:15 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		60 min
Mar 11, 12:39 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		51 min
Mar 11, 1:38 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		97 min
Mar 11, 1:49 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		56 min
Mar 11, 3:13 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		33 min
Mar 11, 3:40 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		95 min
Mar 11, 4:08 AM CST	Marine Weather Statement	MOB		112 min
Mar 11, 9:35 AM CST	River Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	9 days

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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.