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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 18, 2012, 5:17 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2012, 5:17 PM CST (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2012, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 5:20 PM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 3 Sw Seminole, AL | SEVERAL TREES DOWN WITH SOME STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO A SHED AND A MOBILE HOME. DAMAGE WAS REPORTED IN THE CC ROAD AREA ON CACTUS COURT...JUST NORTH OF ELBERTA. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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, 4:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 218 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.
447 WFUS54 KMOB 182317 TORMOB ALC003-FLC033-182345- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0009.120218T2317Z-120218T2345Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 517 PM CST SAT FEB 18 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 545 PM CST * AT 518 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROBERTSDALE...OR 5 MILES EAST OF SUMMERDALE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CANTONMENT AROUND 540 PM CST... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 IN FLORIDA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 1 AND 9. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 IN ALABAMA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 57 AND 66. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. && LAT...LON 3074 8735 3050 8729 3046 8762 3055 8768 TIME...MOT...LOC 2318Z 250DEG 38KT 3054 8758 $$ JP/MB
1 follow-up statement
945 WWUS54 KMOB 182330 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 530 PM CST SAT FEB 18 2012 ALC003-FLC033-182345- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-120218T2345Z/ ESCAMBIA FL-BALDWIN AL- 530 PM CST SAT FEB 18 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR EXTREME EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN AND CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTIES... AT 530 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SEMINOLE...OR 9 MILES WEST OF BELLVIEW...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PINE FOREST AND CANTONMENT BY 540 PM CST... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST SUNDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. && LAT...LON 3052 8749 3063 8732 3050 8729 3048 8748 TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 258DEG 40KT 3051 8742 $$ JP/MB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 3:38 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MOB | 38 hr | |
| Feb 18, 1:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 49 min |
| Feb 18, 2:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 32 days |
| Feb 18, 3:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 47 min |
| Feb 18, 3:28 PM CST | Gale Warning | MOB | 21 hr | |
| Feb 18, 3:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more | 113 min |
| Feb 18, 3:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 61 min |
| Feb 18, 4:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Escambia | 44 min |
| Feb 18, 4:07 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Feb 18, 4:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 116 min |
| Feb 18, 4:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 24 min |
| Feb 18, 4:25 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 2 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 60 min |
| Feb 18, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 52 min |
| Feb 18, 4:52 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 113 min |
| Feb 18, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 76 min |
| Feb 18, 5:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 2 hr |
| Feb 18, 5:27 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 93 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.