Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2013
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 2013, 6:51 PM CST for 4 counties in Alabama. It was in force for 54 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 10, 2013, 6:51 PM CST (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2013, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL
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 10, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -278 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
701
WFUS54 KMOB 110051
TORMOB
ALC013-035-039-041-110145-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0012.130211T0051Z-130211T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
651 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
EAST CENTRAL CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
NORTHERN COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
SOUTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 745 PM CST
* AT 646 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF EVERGREEN...OR 5 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF I65 AND CR 29...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DOZIER... BRANTLEY... MCKENZIE...
RED LEVEL... GANTT...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3153 8616 3152 8619 3137 8620 3141 8687
3153 8690 3165 8616 3163 8618 3162 8614
3154 8614
TIME...MOT...LOC 0051Z 267DEG 34KT 3147 8680
$$1 follow-up statement
313
WWUS54 KMOB 110104
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
704 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
ALC013-035-039-041-110114-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-130211T0145Z/
BUTLER AL-CONECUH AL-COVINGTON AL-CRENSHAW AL-
704 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHERN CRENSHAW...
NORTHERN COVINGTON...EAST CENTRAL CONECUH AND SOUTH CENTRAL BUTLER
COUNTIES...
AT 700 PM CST...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR SOUTHERN
CRENSHAW...NORTHERN COVINGTON...EAST CENTRAL CONECUH AND SOUTH
CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTIES HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THUS
THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
ALTHOUGH THIS WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED...ADDITIONAL STORMS MAY
DEVELOP REQUIRING NEW WARNINGS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3153 8616 3152 8619 3137 8620 3141 8687
3153 8690 3165 8616 3163 8618 3162 8614
3154 8614
TIME...MOT...LOC 0104Z 267DEG 34KT 3148 8666
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 6:12 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 6:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 63 min |
| Feb 10, 6:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Monroe | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox | 57 min |
| Feb 10, 6:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 50 min |
| Feb 10, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 49 min |
| Feb 10, 7:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 7:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 53 min |
| Feb 10, 7:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 50 min |
| Feb 10, 7:45 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 45 min |
| Feb 10, 8:06 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 10 days |
| Feb 10, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 64 min |
| Feb 10, 8:53 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington | 2 hr |
| Feb 10, 9:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 43 min |
| Feb 10, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Monroe, Wilcox | 50 min |
| Feb 11, 12:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 6 hr |
| Feb 11, 1:53 AM CST | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | 8 hr | |
| Feb 11, 2:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 50 min |
| Feb 11, 3:02 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 43 min |
| Feb 11, 5:33 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Feb 11, 6:29 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 6 hr |
| Feb 11, 9:49 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 11 hr |
| Feb 11, 9:49 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Dallas, Monroe, Wilcox | 7 days |
| Feb 11, 9:49 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 11 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:14 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 18 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:25 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Monroe | 18 hr |
| Feb 11, 4:27 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 4 hr |
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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.