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Tornado Warning 74, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 10, 2012, 10:37 AM CST for Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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, 10:37 AM CST (16:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2012, 11:15 AM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 228 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.
722
WFUS54 KMOB 101637
TORMOB
ALC003-FLC033-101715-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0074.121210T1637Z-121210T1715Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1037 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 1115 AM CST
* AT 1034 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOXLEY...OR 13 MILES EAST
OF STAPLETON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE STORM ROTATION
CONTINUES TO GRADUALLY DEEPEN AND INTENSIFY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOLINO...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED AND A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE
GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3069 8761 3074 8759 3086 8730 3085 8731
3084 8730 3080 8729 3080 8731 3073 8731
3072 8728 3067 8727 3064 8753
TIME...MOT...LOC 1636Z 245DEG 19KT 3070 8757
$$1 follow-up statement
264
WWUS54 KMOB 101650
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1050 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
ALC003-101659-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0074.000000T0000Z-121210T1715Z/
BALDWIN AL-
1050 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN
COUNTY...
AT 1048 AM CST...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL
BALDWIN COUNTY HAS MOVED TO THE EAST OUT OF THE COUNTY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3074 8751 3077 8752 3086 8730 3085 8731
3081 8729 3080 8731 3073 8731 3072 8730
3072 8728 3070 8745
TIME...MOT...LOC 1649Z 248DEG 36KT 3076 8746
$$
FLC033-101715-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0074.000000T0000Z-121210T1715Z/
ESCAMBIA FL-
1050 AM CST MON DEC 10 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1115 AM CST FOR CENTRAL
ESCAMBIA COUNTY...
AT 1048 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF MOLINO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOLINO...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED AND A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE
GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3074 8751 3077 8752 3086 8730 3085 8731
3081 8729 3080 8731 3073 8731 3072 8730
3072 8728 3070 8745
TIME...MOT...LOC 1649Z 248DEG 36KT 3076 8746
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 11:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 38 min |
| 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, 10:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 42 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, 10:58 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
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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.