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Tornado Warning 120, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 25, 2012, 4:39 PM CST for Conecuh County, Escambia County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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, 4:39 PM CST (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2012, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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 |
| Dec 25, 2:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
290
WFUS54 KMOB 252239
TORMOB
ALC035-053-099-252330-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0120.121225T2239Z-121225T2330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
439 PM CST TUE DEC 25 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
WESTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 530 PM CST
* AT 436 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF ATMORE...OR 4 MILES EAST OF I65
AND CR 47...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PETERMAN... POARCH CREEK RESERVATION...
MONROEVILLE... MEGARGEL... FRISCO CITY...
EXCEL... REPTON... MCCULLOUGH...
I65 AND CR 1...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 49 AND 71.
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 3148 8705 3101 8748 3100 8761 3109 8761
3163 8732
TIME...MOT...LOC 2238Z 212DEG 29KT 3104 8757
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 9:38 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 20 hr | |
| Dec 25, 4:41 AM CST | Gale Warning | MOB | 31 hr | |
| Dec 25, 4:41 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 13 hr | |
| Dec 25, 4:41 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 42 hr | |
| Dec 25, 4:41 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 42 hr | |
| Dec 25, 2:01 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Dec 25, 2:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 32 min |
| Dec 25, 2:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 65 min |
| Dec 25, 3:14 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 61 min | |
| Dec 25, 3:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 55 min |
| Dec 25, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 68 min |
| Dec 25, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
| Dec 25, 4:13 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 17 min | |
| Dec 25, 4:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 10 min |
| Dec 25, 4:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 51 min |
| Dec 25, 4:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 66 min |
| Dec 25, 4:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 17 min |
| Dec 25, 4:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 49 min |
| Dec 25, 4:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 61 min |
| Dec 25, 4:47 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 43 min | |
| Dec 25, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 55 min |
| Dec 25, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 53 min |
| Dec 25, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 38 min |
| Dec 25, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 45 min |
| Dec 25, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 45 min |
| Dec 25, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 52 min |
| Dec 25, 5:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 18 min |
| Dec 25, 5:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe | 44 min |
| Dec 25, 5:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 58 min |
| Dec 25, 5:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 23 min |
| Dec 25, 5:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 62 min |
| Dec 25, 5:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Wilcox | 65 min |
| Dec 25, 5:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 5:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 64 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.