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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 22, 2012, 2:04 AM CDT for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2012, 2:04 AM CDT (07:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2012, 2:27 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Perry County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 22, 2:05 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Nnw Deep Creek, MS | SEVERAL TREES REPORTED DOWN FROM POSSIBLE TORNADO. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 21, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
515 WFUS54 KMOB 220704 TORMOB MSC111-220745- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0022.120322T0704Z-120322T0745Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 204 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... * UNTIL 245 AM CDT * AT 201 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF WIGGINS...OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCLAIN...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BEAUMONT... 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. IF IN MANUFACTURED HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. && LAT...LON 3122 8898 3122 8884 3092 8884 3091 8901 TIME...MOT...LOC 0704Z 190DEG 17KT 3096 8894 $$
1 follow-up statement
214 WWUS54 KMOB 220727 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 227 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2012 MSC111-220737- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-120322T0745Z/ PERRY MS- 227 AM CDT THU MAR 22 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN PERRY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED. LAT...LON 3122 8898 3122 8884 3092 8884 3091 8901 TIME...MOT...LOC 0727Z 190DEG 17KT 3107 8892 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 10:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 9 days |
| Mar 22, 2:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Stone | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Perry | 3 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:58 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Jackson | 9 days |
| Mar 22, 10:00 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Wayne | 9 days |
| Mar 22, 1:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 12 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.