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Tornado Warning 115, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 25, 2012, 4:14 PM CST for Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 61 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 25, 2012, 4:14 PM CST (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2012, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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 25, 12:58 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
984
WFUS54 KMOB 252214
TORMOB
MSC111-153-252315-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0115.121225T2214Z-121225T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
414 PM CST TUE DEC 25 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 515 PM CST
* AT 413 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 11 MILES NORTH OF RICHTON...OR 19 MILES WEST OF
CLARA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO... CLARA... BUCKATUNNA...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST TUESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
&&
LAT...LON 3144 8907 3144 8895 3168 8895 3184 8874
3188 8853 3182 8847 3165 8846 3153 8851
3138 8902
TIME...MOT...LOC 2214Z 230DEG 34KT 3151 8900
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 3:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 56 min |
| Dec 25, 3:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 56 min |
| Dec 25, 4:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 54 min |
| Dec 25, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 48 min |
| Dec 25, 4:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 66 min |
| Dec 25, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 55 min |
| Dec 25, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 53 min |
| Dec 25, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 45 min |
| Dec 25, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 62 min |
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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.