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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2012, 1:17 PM CST for George County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 13 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
- Feb 18, 2012, 1:17 PM CST (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2012, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties George County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 11:49 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
152
WFUS54 KMOB 181917
TORMOB
MSC039-131-181930-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0006.120218T1917Z-120218T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
117 PM CST SAT FEB 18 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 130 PM CST
* AT 117 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF WIGGINS...OR 3 MILES EAST OF PERKINSTON...MOVING EAST
AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BIG LEVEL... RUBLE... DALE...
WLOX TV STATION TOWER... RAMSEY SPRINGS...
BEATRICE... BENNDALE...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
IF IN MANUFACTURED HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST SATURDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3094 8879 3073 8873 3073 8877 3073 8888
3072 8888 3071 8910 3081 8912
TIME...MOT...LOC 1917Z 257DEG 47KT 3078 8904
$$
JP/MBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 9:48 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 6 days |
| Feb 18, 9:48 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Wayne | 6 days |
| Feb 18, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 51 min |
| Feb 18, 1:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 47 min |
| Feb 18, 1:35 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Perry, Stone | 115 min |
| Feb 18, 1:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 39 min |
| Feb 18, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 49 min |
| Feb 18, 2:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 32 days |
| Feb 18, 4:05 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 34 days |
| Feb 18, 4:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 60 min |
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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.