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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 208, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 10, 2012, 9:00 AM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 60 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
- Dec 10, 2012, 9:00 AM CST (15:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2012, 10:00 AM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:02 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 8:51 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 443 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
992
WUUS54 KMOB 101500
SVRMOB
MSC153-101600-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0208.121210T1500Z-121210T1600Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
900 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 1000 AM CST
* AT 857 AM CST...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WERE LOCATED FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
QUITMAN TO 12 MILES NORTH OF RICHTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO... CLARA... BUCKATUNNA...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3183 8894 3185 8866 3187 8858 3187 8848
3147 8850 3145 8894 3182 8895
TIME...MOT...LOC 1459Z 269DEG 30KT 3209 8880 3152 8899
$$2 follow-up statements
199
WWUS54 KMOB 101530
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
930 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
MSC153-101600-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0208.000000T0000Z-121210T1600Z/
WAYNE MS-
930 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CST
FOR WAYNE COUNTY...
AT 925 AM CST...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WERE LOCATED FROM 10 MILES WEST OF BUTLER
TO 14 MILES NORTH OF RICHTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
ANOTHER LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED TO THE SOUTHWEST
AND WILL BE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY DURING THE
NEXT HOUR. FUTURE WARNINGS WITH THIS NEW LINE OF STORMS TO THE
SOUTHWEST WILL BE LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO... CLARA... BUCKATUNNA...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3183 8894 3185 8866 3187 8858 3187 8848
3147 8850 3145 8894 3182 8895
TIME...MOT...LOC 1527Z 264DEG 25KT 3212 8837 3154 8884
$$540
WWUS54 KMOB 101547
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
947 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
MSC153-101600-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0208.000000T0000Z-121210T1600Z/
WAYNE MS-
947 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CST
FOR WAYNE COUNTY...
AT 943 AM CST...A NEW LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED FROM 12 MILES WEST
OF WAYNESBORO TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RICHTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO... CLARA... BUCKATUNNA...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3179 8891 3187 8850 3150 8851 3147 8857
3145 8894 3167 8895
TIME...MOT...LOC 1546Z 222DEG 55KT 3168 8882 3132 8897
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 9:23 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 10:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 58 min |
| Dec 10, 10:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Stone | 64 min |
| Dec 10, 10:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 11:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2012Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2012
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.