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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2012, 5:33 AM CDT for George County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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, 5:33 AM CDT (10:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2012, 6:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties George County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:36 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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.
858
WFUS54 KMOB 291033
TORMOB
MSC039-131-291100-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0039.120829T1033Z-120829T1100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
533 AM CDT WED AUG 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
EASTERN STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 600 AM CDT
* AT 531 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 18 MILES NORTH OF ST. MARTIN...OR 14 MILES
NORTHWEST OF VANCLEAVE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL SOUTHWESTERN GEORGE COUNTY
RURAL EASTERN STONE COUNTY
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CDT WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3091 8915 3091 8887 3073 8872 3073 8876
3073 8888 3068 8888 3067 8889 3067 8893
TIME...MOT...LOC 1033Z 142DEG 53KT 3072 8884
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 11:46 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | George | 119 min |
| Aug 29, 7:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Perry, Stone | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 8:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 39 min |
| Aug 29, 10:18 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 14 hr |
| Aug 29, 12:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 40 min |
| Aug 29, 1:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 1:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Stone | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 2:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 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.