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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 2013, 5:27 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi; Choctaw County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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, 5:27 PM CST (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2013, 6:15 PM CST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
908
WFUS54 KMOB 102327
TORMOB
ALC023-129-MSC153-110015-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0004.130210T2327Z-130211T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
527 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
SOUTHWESTERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 615 PM CST
* AT 523 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND
LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 14 MILES WEST OF
WAYNESBORO...OR 10 MILES WEST OF CLARA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO... CLARA... TOXEY...
SILAS... NEEDHAM... GILBERTOWN...
MILLRY...
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 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3185 8816 3182 8818 3175 8815 3176 8811
3169 8808 3165 8809 3161 8807 3151 8887
3162 8895 3168 8895 3186 8867 3189 8849
3198 8847 3210 8828
TIME...MOT...LOC 2327Z 242DEG 48KT 3163 8881
$$1 follow-up statement
773
WWUS54 KMOB 102337
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
537 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
ALC023-129-MSC153-110015-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-130211T0015Z/
CHOCTAW AL-WASHINGTON AL-WAYNE MS-
537 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CST FOR WAYNE...
NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON AND SOUTHWESTERN CHOCTAW COUNTIES...
AT 532 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND LIKELY
PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO...OR 7
MILES NORTHWEST OF CLARA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WAYNESBORO... CLARA... TOXEY...
SILAS... NEEDHAM... GILBERTOWN...
MILLRY...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3185 8816 3182 8818 3175 8815 3176 8811
3169 8808 3165 8809 3161 8807 3153 8881
3166 8890 3186 8868 3189 8849 3190 8848
3198 8847 3210 8828
TIME...MOT...LOC 2337Z 242DEG 48KT 3166 8873
$$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, 5:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 58 min |
| Feb 10, 5:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 10:51 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 24 days |
| Feb 10, 4:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 60 min |
| Feb 10, 4:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 55 min |
| Feb 10, 5:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 58 min |
| Feb 10, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 60 min |
| Feb 10, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 65 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2013Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2013Every tornado warning in 2013Tornadoes in 2013
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.