Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 2012, 9:15 AM CST for Washington County, Alabama; Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 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
- Jan 26, 2012, 9:15 AM CST (15:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2012, 9:53 AM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Washington County, AL, Greene County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 9:36 AM CST | HAIL 0.25 | 1 E Leakesville, MS | PUBLIC REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL 1 MILE EAST OF LEAKESVILLE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 4:18 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 461 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 354 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.6
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS54 KMOB 261515
SVRMOB
ALC129-MSC041-261615-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0005.120126T1515Z-120126T1615Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
915 AM CST THU JAN 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 1015 AM CST
* AT 910 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 8 MILES SOUTH OF LEAKESVILLE...
OR 14 MILES EAST OF MCLAIN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LEAKESVILLE... VINEGAR BEND... TIBBIE...
FRUITDALE... DEER PARK...
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 IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST THURSDAY FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3142 8872 3141 8818 3111 8840 3111 8843
3106 8843 3103 8846 3103 8870
TIME...MOT...LOC 1515Z 209DEG 40KT 3109 8856
$$1 follow-up statement
044
WWUS54 KMOB 261553
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
953 AM CST THU JAN 26 2012
ALC129-MSC041-261603-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-120126T1615Z/
WASHINGTON AL-GREENE MS-
953 AM CST THU JAN 26 2012
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN GREENE AND
SOUTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST THURSDAY FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST THURSDAY
AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 3142 8872 3141 8818 3111 8840 3111 8843
3106 8843 3103 8846 3103 8870
TIME...MOT...LOC 1553Z 209DEG 40KT 3146 8832
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 8:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 49 min |
| Jan 26, 9:20 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 40 min |
| Jan 26, 9:33 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 57 min |
| Jan 26, 9:41 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jan 26, 9:49 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 2 more | 116 min |
| Jan 26, 9:50 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 23 hr | |
| Jan 26, 11:03 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Jan 26, 11:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 21 min |
| Jan 26, 11:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 27 min |
| Jan 26, 12:05 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 26, 12:49 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 56 min | |
| Jan 26, 1:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 39 min |
| Jan 26, 1:38 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 6 days |
| Jan 26, 1:38 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 6 days |
| Jan 26, 1:44 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 46 min | |
| Jan 26, 7:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 54 min |
| Jan 26, 8:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 39 min |
| Jan 26, 8:42 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2012Severe 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.