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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2012, 7:51 AM CDT for George County, Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 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, 7:51 AM CDT (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2012, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties George County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:52 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 |
| Aug 29, 6:36 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 625 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
727 WFUS54 KMOB 291251 TORMOB MSC039-111-131-291330- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0040.120829T1251Z-120829T1330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 751 AM CDT WED AUG 29 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... NORTHEASTERN STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... * UNTIL 830 AM CDT * AT 747 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ESCATAWPA...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF WADE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL SOUTHWESTERN GEORGE COUNTY RURAL SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY RURAL NORTHEASTERN STONE COUNTY PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3123 8915 3073 8859 3073 8884 3095 8915 TIME...MOT...LOC 1250Z 133DEG 58KT 3072 8869 $$
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, 5:33 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 27 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.