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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 10, 2012, 10:26 AM CST for Greene County, Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 64 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, 10:26 AM CST (16:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2012, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:29 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 767 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
673
WUUS54 KMOB 101626
SVRMOB
MSC041-111-131-101730-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0212.121210T1626Z-121210T1730Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1026 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 1130 AM CST
* AT 1020 AM CST...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES SOUTH OF RICHTON TO 22 MILES NORTH OF
DIAMONDHEAD...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MCLAIN... LEAKESVILLE... BEAUMONT...
WIGGINS... PERKINSTON... MCHENRY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO
IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3086 8935 3092 8929 3092 8914 3104 8915
3122 8895 3123 8847 3100 8866 3100 8883
3091 8883 3091 8888 3069 8888 3067 8905
3067 8923 3064 8926 3065 8935
TIME...MOT...LOC 1626Z 252DEG 28KT 3119 8891 3069 8945
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 9:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 60 min |
| 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, 10:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 11:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 42 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.