Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 2012, 4:45 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. 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
- Aug 28, 2012, 4:45 PM CDT (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2012, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 9:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 650 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
357
WFUS54 KMOB 282145
TORMOB
ALC003-FLC033-113-282215-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0036.120828T2145Z-120828T2215Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
445 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
WEST CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
EASTERN BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 441 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES WEST OF PACE...OR 4 MILES WEST OF
FLORIDATOWN...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FLORIDATOWN... PACE... MOLINO...
GONZALEZ...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3072 8771 3094 8757 3062 8712 3057 8715
3057 8717 3055 8717 3051 8720
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 124DEG 40KT 3061 8725
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 51 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2012Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2012Every tornado warning in 2012Tornadoes in 2012
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.