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Tornado Warning 124, NWS Mobile, AL

December 25, 2012Crenshaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 25, 2012, 4:52 PM CST for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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, 4:52 PM CST (22:52 UTC)
Expired: Dec 25, 2012, 5:30 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Crenshaw County, AL

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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

116 
WFUS54 KMOB 252252 RRA
TORMOB
ALC041-252330-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0124.121225T2252Z-121225T2330Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
452 PM CST TUE DEC 25 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 530 PM CST

* AT 449 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF LUVERNE...OR 5 MILES WEST OF
  RUTLEDGE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RUTLEDGE...

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 3166 8634 3168 8645 3205 8636 3206 8630
      3205 8630 3197 8630 3197 8619 3196 8618
      3194 8617
TIME...MOT...LOC 2252Z 200DEG 31KT 3173 8638

$$

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, 4:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia	49 min
Dec 25, 4:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning Emergency	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, 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

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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.