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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2012, 12:49 AM CDT for Baldwin County, Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 29 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 29, 2012, 12:49 AM CDT (05:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2012, 1:18 AM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 21 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 392 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 473 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
782
WFUS54 KMOB 290549
TORMOB
ALC003-097-290645-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0038.120829T0549Z-120829T0645Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1249 AM CDT WED AUG 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 145 AM CDT
* AT 1246 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROBERTSDALE...OR 3 MILES
WEST OF SUMMERDALE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 50 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DOWNTOWN MOBILE... MOVICO... SATSUMA...
SARALAND... PRICHARD... MOUNT VERNON...
I65 AND US 45... I65 AND US 43... I65 AND I165...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 24 AND 46. THIS
INCLUDES INTERSTATE 65 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 5 AND 30.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3054 8791 3062 8792 3066 8795 3067 8801
3064 8803 3064 8805 3090 8841 3113 8798
3053 8766 3043 8776
TIME...MOT...LOC 0549Z 135DEG 43KT 3053 8777
$$1 follow-up statement
291
WWUS54 KMOB 290618
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
118 AM CDT WED AUG 29 2012
ALC003-097-290628-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0038.000000T0000Z-120829T0645Z/
BALDWIN AL-MOBILE AL-
118 AM CDT WED AUG 29 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHERN MOBILE AND
WEST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTIES...
AT 114 AM CDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR NORTHERN
MOBILE AND WEST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTIES HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3054 8791 3062 8792 3066 8795 3067 8801
3064 8803 3064 8805 3090 8841 3113 8798
3053 8766 3043 8776
TIME...MOT...LOC 0618Z 135DEG 43KT 3078 8806
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 9:21 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 9 hr |
| Aug 28, 11:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 119 min |
| Aug 28, 11:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 116 min |
| Aug 29, 1:49 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Mobile | 116 min |
| Aug 29, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:24 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 31 hr |
| Aug 29, 10:04 AM CDT | High Surf Warning | MOB | 30 hr | |
| Aug 29, 10:18 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MOB | 14 hr | |
| Aug 29, 2:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 6 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.