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Tornado Warning 54, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 30, 2012, 5:48 AM CDT for Greene County, Wayne 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 30, 2012, 5:48 AM CDT (10:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2012, 6:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greene County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:50 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 29, 11:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 325 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 316 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
507 WFUS54 KMOB 301048 TORMOB MSC041-153-301115- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0054.120830T1048Z-120830T1115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 548 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... * UNTIL 615 AM CDT * AT 545 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHATOM...OR 3 MILES SOUTH OF STATE LINE...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WAYNESBORO... STATE LINE... BUCKATUNNA... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL (800) 284-9059. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3137 8844 3135 8855 3171 8870 3176 8847 TIME...MOT...LOC 1048Z 166DEG 37KT 3142 8849 $$
1 follow-up statement
743 WWUS54 KMOB 301102 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 602 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2012 MSC041-301112- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0054.000000T0000Z-120830T1115Z/ GREENE MS- 602 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY... AT 601 AM CDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL (800) 284-9059. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3153 8846 3150 8856 3171 8870 3176 8847 TIME...MOT...LOC 1102Z 166DEG 37KT 3156 8853 $$ MSC153-301115- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0054.000000T0000Z-120830T1115Z/ WAYNE MS- 602 AM CDT THU AUG 30 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 AM CDT FOR EAST CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY... AT 601 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WAYNESBORO...OR NEAR BUCKATUNNA... MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WAYNESBORO... BUCKATUNNA... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CALL (800) 284-9059. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3153 8846 3150 8856 3171 8870 3176 8847 TIME...MOT...LOC 1102Z 166DEG 37KT 3156 8853 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 8:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 48 min |
| Aug 29, 10:20 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 9 days |
| Aug 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 11:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 12:52 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 16 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:13 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Perry | 22 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:28 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 12 hr |
| Aug 30, 4:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 4:37 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Wayne | 9 days |
| Aug 30, 5:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 23 min |
| Aug 30, 6:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 30 min |
| Aug 30, 7:07 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Wayne | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 22 min |
| Aug 30, 7:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | George | 33 min |
| Aug 30, 8:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 35 min |
| Aug 30, 8:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 32 min |
| Aug 30, 8:45 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 45 min |
| Aug 30, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Greene | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 10:17 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Jackson | 9 days |
| Aug 30, 1:18 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 20 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.