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Tornado Warning 136, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 25, 2012, 7:00 PM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 30 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, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2012, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 696 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 921 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
467
WFUS54 KMOB 260100
TORMOB
ALC131-260130-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0136.121226T0100Z-121226T0130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
700 PM CST TUE DEC 25 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 730 PM CST
* AT 659 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTH OF CAMDEN...OR 5 MILES NORTHEAST
OF VREDENBURGH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OAK HILL...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.
IF IN MANUFACTURED HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER.
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 3205 8717 3205 8686 3205 8685 3201 8685
3182 8715 3183 8739 3208 8719
TIME...MOT...LOC 0101Z 220DEG 47KT 3190 8725
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 25, 6:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 67 min |
| Dec 25, 6:20 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 85 min | |
| Dec 25, 6:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 55 min |
| Dec 25, 6:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 6:38 PM CST | Coastal Flood Advisory | MOB | 5 hr | |
| Dec 25, 6:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 45 min |
| Dec 25, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington | 60 min |
| Dec 25, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 41 min |
| Dec 25, 7:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 39 min |
| Dec 25, 7:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 26 min |
| Dec 25, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe, Wilcox | 53 min |
| Dec 25, 7:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 8:03 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 87 min | |
| Dec 25, 8:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 49 min |
| Dec 25, 8:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh | 39 min |
| Dec 25, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 8:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 47 min |
| Dec 25, 9:08 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 82 min | |
| Dec 25, 9:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 51 min |
| Dec 25, 9:23 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 97 min | |
| Dec 25, 9:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 9:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw | 70 min |
| Dec 25, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia | 45 min |
| Dec 25, 10:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 60 min |
| Dec 25, 10:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 46 min |
| Dec 25, 10:33 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Dec 25, 10:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 35 min |
| Dec 25, 11:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 26 min |
| Dec 26, 5:43 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 9 hr |
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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.