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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 7:47 PM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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
- Mar 2, 2012, 7:47 PM CST (01:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 8:13 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Choctaw County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 4:37 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 754 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1391 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 315 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
952
WFUS54 KMOB 030147
TORMOB
ALC023-030230-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0021.120303T0147Z-120303T0230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
747 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 830 PM CST
* AT 745 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF BUTLER...OR 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LISMAN...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PENNINGTON... LISMAN...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3229 8792 3228 8794 3230 8795 3230 8798
3228 8801 3226 8800 3219 8800 3207 8827
3222 8839 3232 8822 3231 8793
TIME...MOT...LOC 0147Z 238DEG 35KT 3219 8824
$$2 follow-up statements
214
WWUS54 KMOB 030158
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
758 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
ALC023-030230-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120303T0230Z/
CHOCTAW AL-
758 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 830 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY...
AT 756 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
TORNADIC STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR DEAS...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF
BUTLER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
PENNINGTON...EDNA...TOMPKINSVILLE...NAHEOLA AND OAKCHIA
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3217 8815 3223 8818 3231 8816 3231 8793
3229 8792 3228 8794 3230 8795 3230 8798
3228 8801 3226 8800 3219 8800
TIME...MOT...LOC 0157Z 244DEG 42KT 3224 8809
$$022
WWUS54 KMOB 030213
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
813 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
ALC023-030223-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120303T0230Z/
CHOCTAW AL-
813 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
AT 813 PM CST...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS BOTH
WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF NORTHEASTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY...THUS THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3217 8815 3223 8818 3231 8816 3231 8793
3229 8792 3228 8794 3230 8795 3230 8798
3228 8801 3226 8800 3219 8800
TIME...MOT...LOC 0213Z 244DEG 42KT 3232 8789
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 12:01 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 6:26 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Mar 3, 7:22 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 38 min | |
| Mar 3, 12:46 PM CST | Gale Warning | MOB | 20 hr | |
| Mar 3, 12:46 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 20 hr | |
| Mar 3, 2:21 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 17 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.