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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 2013, 5:17 PM CST for Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 58 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, 5:17 PM CST (23:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2013, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 504 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 561 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
592
WFUS54 KMOB 102317
TORMOB
MSC041-111-153-110015-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0003.130210T2317Z-130211T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
517 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 615 PM CST
* AT 513 PM CST...A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED. THE TORNADIC STORM
WAS LOCATED NEAR WEST HATTIESBURG...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF PURVIS...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLARA... RICHTON...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.
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 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3144 8914 3144 8895 3168 8895 3180 8875
3135 8848 3125 8915 3143 8915
TIME...MOT...LOC 2317Z 246DEG 33KT 3133 8934
$$2 follow-up statements
568
WWUS54 KMOB 102335
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
535 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
MSC041-111-153-110015-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-130211T0015Z/
WAYNE MS-PERRY MS-GREENE MS-
535 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR
NORTHWESTERN GREENE...NORTHERN PERRY AND WESTERN WAYNE COUNTIES...
AT 532 PM CST...A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AND WAS LOCATED 6 MILES
NORTHEAST OF PETAL...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW AUGUSTA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLARA...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3144 8914 3144 8895 3168 8895 3180 8875
3146 8854 3133 8915 3143 8915
TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 246DEG 33KT 3140 8913
$$867
WWUS54 KMOB 102343
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
543 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
MSC041-111-153-110015-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-130211T0015Z/
WAYNE MS-PERRY MS-GREENE MS-
543 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR
NORTHWESTERN GREENE...NORTHERN PERRY AND WESTERN WAYNE COUNTIES...
AT 536 PM CST...A TORNADO HAS BEEN CONFIRMED AND WAS LOCATED 9 MILES
NORTHEAST OF PETAL...OR 15 MILES NORTH OF NEW AUGUSTA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS TORNADO IN
FORREST COUNTY. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CLARA...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
DAMAGING HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3144 8914 3144 8895 3168 8895 3180 8875
3146 8854 3133 8915 3143 8915
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 246DEG 33KT 3143 8906
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 4:22 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 65 hr |
| Feb 10, 9:12 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Wayne | 22 days |
| Feb 10, 3:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 51 min |
| Feb 10, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 57 min |
| Feb 10, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 39 min |
| Feb 10, 5:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 48 min |
| Feb 10, 5:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.