Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 72, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 10, 2012, 10:03 AM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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
- Dec 10, 2012, 10:03 AM CST (16:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2012, 10:45 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 767 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
940
WFUS54 KMOB 101603
TORMOB
ALC003-101645-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0072.121210T1603Z-121210T1645Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1003 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 1045 AM CST
* AT 1002 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES EAST OF DAPHNE...OR 5 MILES NORTHWEST
OF SILVERHILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROBERTSDALE... LOXLEY...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 42 AND 59.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3062 8788 3080 8758 3078 8754 3074 8753
3072 8748 3070 8747 3070 8745 3068 8741
3064 8739 3060 8741 3053 8784
TIME...MOT...LOC 1603Z 241DEG 24KT 3058 8782
$$2 follow-up statements
324
WWUS54 KMOB 101616
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1016 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
ALC003-101645-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0072.000000T0000Z-121210T1645Z/
BALDWIN AL-
1016 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 AM CST FOR CENTRAL
BALDWIN COUNTY...
AT 1011 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR LOXLEY...OR 5 MILES NORTH OF SILVERHILL...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LOXLEY...
RURAL EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 44 AND 58.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR
IT COMING THEN IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3062 8781 3069 8775 3080 8758 3078 8755
3074 8753 3072 8748 3070 8747 3070 8745
3068 8741 3064 8739 3060 8741 3057 8775
TIME...MOT...LOC 1615Z 241DEG 23KT 3063 8774
$$174
WWUS54 KMOB 101625
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1025 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
ALC003-101645-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0072.000000T0000Z-121210T1645Z/
BALDWIN AL-
1025 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 AM CST FOR EAST
CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY...
AT 1020 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOXLEY...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
SILVERHILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RURAL EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 47 AND 55.
THE STORM ROTATION APPEARS TO BE INTENSIFYING.
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 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3062 8769 3064 8773 3068 8772 3074 8764
3074 8753 3072 8748 3070 8747 3070 8745
3067 8741 3065 8745 3061 8764
TIME...MOT...LOC 1625Z 241DEG 27KT 3067 8765
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 3:51 AM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 29 hr | |
| Dec 10, 9:43 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Dec 10, 9:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 52 min |
| Dec 10, 10:31 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 49 min |
| Dec 10, 10:36 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 40 min |
| Dec 10, 10:37 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
| Dec 10, 10:58 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 41 min |
| Dec 10, 11:32 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 42 min |
| Dec 10, 11:36 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 54 min |
| Dec 10, 12:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Monroe | 47 min |
| Dec 10, 12:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 42 min |
| Dec 10, 12:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Conecuh, Monroe | 28 min |
| Dec 10, 12:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Wilcox | 29 min |
| Dec 10, 12:37 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2012Every tornado warning in 2012Tornadoes in 2012
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.