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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Mobile, AL

May 12, 2012Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2012, 11:20 AM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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
May 12, 2012, 11:20 AM CDT (16:20 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2012, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 81 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2012-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1685 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2012-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1685 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

721 
WUUS54 KMOB 121620
SVRMOB
MSC131-121700-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0051.120512T1620Z-120512T1700Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1120 AM CDT SAT MAY 12 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL NOON CDT

* AT 1117 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER
  SIZE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST
  OF WIGGINS...OR 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF PERKINSTON...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL NORTHWESTERN STONE COUNTY

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE
ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

&&

LAT...LON 3092 8934 3092 8925 3091 8914 3088 8916
      3078 8923 3080 8935 3091 8935
TIME...MOT...LOC 1620Z 205DEG 15KT 3087 8930

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 11:44 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBPerry, Stone46 min
May 12, 12:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBPerry52 min
May 12, 12:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGreene59 min
May 12, 12:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBGreene50 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.