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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 24, 2012, 8:06 AM CST for Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi; Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2012, 8:06 AM CST (14:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 8:45 AM CST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Washington County, AL, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:28 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Se Old Avera, MS | NUMEROUS PINE TREES WERE SNAPPED AND ARE BLOCKING THE ROADS APPROXIMATELY FIVE MILES SOUTH OF STATE LINE...MS. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 24, 7:48 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 738 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
364 WUUS54 KMOB 241406 SVRMOB ALC129-MSC041-111-153-241445- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0021.120224T1406Z-120224T1445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 806 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... EAST CENTRAL PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 845 AM CST * AT 803 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RICHTON... OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEAUMONT...AND MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HOBSON... STATE LINE... BEAUMONT... WAGARVILLE... VINEGAR BEND... TIBBIE... FRUITDALE... CHATOM... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3161 8810 3136 8797 3108 8896 3131 8898 TIME...MOT...LOC 1407Z 251DEG 53KT 3128 8875 $$
1 follow-up statement
643 WUUS54 KMOB 241410 CCA SVRMOB ALC129-MSC041-111-153-241445- /O.COR.KMOB.SV.W.0021.120224T1406Z-120224T1445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 806 AM CST FRI FEB 24 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... EAST CENTRAL PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 845 AM CST * AT 803 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RICHTON... OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF BEAUMONT...AND MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... HOBSON... STATE LINE... BEAUMONT... WAGARVILLE... VINEGAR BEND... TIBBIE... FRUITDALE... CHATOM... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3161 8810 3136 8797 3108 8896 3131 8898 TIME...MOT...LOC 1407Z 251DEG 53KT 3128 8875 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 8:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Washington | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 9:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe | 40 min |
| Feb 24, 9:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 30 min |
| Feb 24, 9:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 25 min |
| Feb 24, 9:52 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox | 38 min |
| Feb 24, 10:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 10:35 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Feb 24, 11:15 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Feb 24, 11:26 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 19 min | |
| Feb 24, 12:17 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Feb 24, 2:08 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 26 hr |
Nearby
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.