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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL

March 10, 2010Conecuh County, Monroe County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 10, 2010, 9:48 PM CST for Conecuh County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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, 9:48 PM CST (03:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 10, 2010, 10:18 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Conecuh County, AL, Monroe County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Mar 10, 7:24 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.

771 
WFUS54 KMOB 110348
TORMOB
ALC035-099-110430-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0007.100311T0348Z-100311T0430Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...  
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...  
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MONROEVILLE...

* UNTIL 1030 PM CST

* AT 947 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF FRISCO
  CITY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONROEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BURNT CORN 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.

TO REPORT ANY TORNADOES...FUNNEL CLOUDS...OR OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER
OBSERVATIONS TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL FREE AT 1 8
7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3180 8714 3152 8693 3141 8739 3147 8748
TIME...MOT...LOC 0348Z 244DEG 28KT 3147 8738

$$

2 follow-up statements

652 
WWUS54 KMOB 110404
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1004 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010

ALC035-099-110430-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-100311T0430Z/
CONECUH AL-MONROE AL-
1004 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM CST FOR MONROE 
AND NORTH CENTRAL CONECUH COUNTIES...

AT 1000 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS 
TORNADO WAS PASSING NEAR MONROEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR...
  PETERMAN AND BERMUDA BY 1015 PM CST...
  BURNT CORN AND TUNNEL SPRINGS BY 1020 PM CST...
  FAIRNELSON...PINE ORCHARD...LYEFFION AND TURNBULL BY 1030 PM CST...


LAT...LON 3180 8714 3155 8695 3145 8730 3151 8741
TIME...MOT...LOC 0402Z 242DEG 23KT 3151 8731

$$

843 
WWUS54 KMOB 110418
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1018 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010

ALC035-099-110428-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-100311T0430Z/
CONECUH AL-MONROE AL-
1018 PM CST WED MAR 10 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MONROE AND NORTH CENTRAL CONECUH COUNTIES 
IS CANCELLED...

THE THUNDERSTORM WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS AS IT MOVED NORTHEAST 
OF THE MONROEVILLE AREA.  

LAT...LON 3180 8714 3155 8695 3145 8730 3151 8741
TIME...MOT...LOC 0418Z 242DEG 23KT 3156 8720

$$

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, 9:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	50 min
Mar 10, 9:46 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.