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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 2013, 5:30 PM CST for Clarke County, Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 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, 5:30 PM CST (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2013, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clarke County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
334 WFUS54 KMOB 102330 TORMOB ALC025-099-131-110030- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0005.130210T2330Z-130211T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 530 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... WESTERN WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA... EAST CENTRAL CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 527 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GROVE HILL...OR 6 MILES WEST OF WHATLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BOYKIN... YELLOW BLUFF... CAMDEN... WHATLEY... GROVE HILL... FULTON... VREDENBURGH... BEATRICE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3171 8705 3155 8782 3174 8789 3210 8730 TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 243DEG 32KT 3167 8779 $$
3 follow-up statements
299 WWUS54 KMOB 102336 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 536 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 ALC025-099-131-110030- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-130211T0030Z/ MONROE AL-WILCOX AL-CLARKE AL- 536 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR EAST CENTRAL CLARKE...WESTERN WILCOX AND NORTHERN MONROE COUNTIES... AT 532 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GROVE HILL...OR 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF WHATLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BOYKIN... YELLOW BLUFF... CAMDEN... WHATLEY... GROVE HILL... FULTON... VREDENBURGH... BEATRICE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLY FROM A TORNADO HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. && LAT...LON 3171 8705 3155 8782 3174 8789 3210 8730 TIME...MOT...LOC 2334Z 246DEG 47KT 3170 8770 $$
105 WWUS54 KMOB 102352 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 552 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 ALC025-099-131-110030- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-130211T0030Z/ MONROE AL-WILCOX AL-CLARKE AL- 552 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR EAST CENTRAL CLARKE...WESTERN WILCOX AND NORTHERN MONROE COUNTIES... AT 546 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 11 MILES EAST OF GROVE HILL...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WHATLEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GROVE HILL MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... BOYKIN... YELLOW BLUFF... CAMDEN... WHATLEY... GROVE HILL... FULTON... VREDENBURGH... BEATRICE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3210 8730 3171 8705 3155 8782 3174 8789 TIME...MOT...LOC 2348Z 244DEG 36KT 3172 8758 $$
219
WWUS54 KMOB 110001
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
601 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
ALC025-099-131-110030-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-130211T0030Z/
MONROE AL-WILCOX AL-CLARKE AL-
601 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR EAST
CENTRAL CLARKE...WESTERN WILCOX AND NORTHERN MONROE COUNTIES...
AT 555 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND LIKELY
PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONROEVILLE...
OR 12 MILES EAST OF WHATLEY...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST
SOUTH OF GROVE HILL...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BOYKIN... YELLOW BLUFF... CAMDEN...
WHATLEY... GROVE HILL... FULTON...
VREDENBURGH... BEATRICE...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
DAMAGING WINDS POSSIBLY FROM A TORNADO HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE
STORMS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
&&
LAT...LON 3210 8730 3171 8705 3161 8749 3157 8776
3174 8781
TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 254DEG 41KT 3169 8746
$$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 | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 65 hr |
| 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, 4:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 57 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, 5:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 48 min |
| Feb 10, 5:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 65 min |
| Feb 10, 5:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 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.