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Tornado Warning 121, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 25, 2012, 4:41 PM CST for Conecuh County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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, 4:41 PM CST (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2012, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 136 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, 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 198 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.
497 WFUS54 KMOB 252241 TORMOB ALC035-053-252330- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0121.121225T2241Z-121225T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 441 PM CST TUE DEC 25 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... * UNTIL 530 PM CST * AT 440 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF BREWTON...OR 3 MILES EAST OF I65 AND AL 113...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... I65 AND US 84... I65 AND CR 6... I65 AND CR 29... I65 AND AL 83... I65 AND AL 41... EVERGREEN... I65 AND AL 113... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 67 AND 104. 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 3164 8705 3152 8684 3113 8725 3118 8734 TIME...MOT...LOC 2241Z 209DEG 35KT 3120 8726 $$
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, 4:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 51 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.