Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 70, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 30, 2012, 6:29 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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
- Sep 30, 2012, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 30, 2012, 6:57 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 5:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 552 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
411
WFUS54 KMOB 302329
TORMOB
ALC003-010015-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0070.120930T2329Z-121001T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
629 PM CDT SUN SEP 30 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 625 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BAY MINETTE...OR NEAR I65
AND AL 225...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
I65 AND AL 59...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING THEN IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3097 8789 3098 8787 3099 8788 3099 8790
3101 8790 3127 8779 3123 8762 3093 8782
TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 207DEG 21KT 3100 8784
$$2 follow-up statements
020
WWUS54 KMOB 302342
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
642 PM CDT SUN SEP 30 2012
ALC003-010015-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0070.000000T0000Z-121001T0015Z/
BALDWIN AL-
642 PM CDT SUN SEP 30 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY...
AT 639 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTH OF BAY MINETTE...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF I65
AND AL 59...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL NORTH CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING THEN IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3104 8789 3127 8779 3123 8762 3100 8777
3099 8779
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 198DEG 17KT 3106 8783
$$631
WWUS54 KMOB 302357
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
657 PM CDT SUN SEP 30 2012
ALC003-010007-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0070.000000T0000Z-121001T0015Z/
BALDWIN AL-
657 PM CDT SUN SEP 30 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR NORTH CENTRAL BALDWIN
COUNTY...
AT 652 PM CDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL
BALDWIN COUNTY HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THUS THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3104 8789 3127 8779 3123 8762 3100 8777
3099 8779
TIME...MOT...LOC 2357Z 198DEG 17KT 3113 8780
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 30, 11:15 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Sep 30, 12:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 91 min | |
| Sep 30, 12:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 2 hr |
| Sep 30, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 34 min |
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.