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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 2013, 5:40 PM CST for Choctaw County, Clarke County, Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 65 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 10, 2013, 5:40 PM CST (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2013, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 6:00 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | Coffeeville, AL | GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND TREES DOWN IN COFFEEVILLE. |
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 10, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 200 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.
635 WFUS54 KMOB 102340 TORMOB ALC023-025-129-110045- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0006.130210T2340Z-130211T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 540 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... NORTHWESTERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 645 PM CST * AT 536 PM CST...ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 16 MILES NORTH OF CHATOM...OR 4 MILES NORTH OF MILLRY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SILAS... COFFEEVILLE... MILLRY... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3164 8777 3162 8834 3174 8841 3199 8788 TIME...MOT...LOC 2340Z 256DEG 33KT 3170 8825 $$
1 follow-up statement
436 WWUS54 KMOB 102353 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 553 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 ALC023-025-129-110045- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-130211T0045Z/ CHOCTAW AL-WASHINGTON AL-CLARKE AL- 553 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR NORTHWESTERN CLARKE...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND SOUTH CENTRAL CHOCTAW COUNTIES... AT 550 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 21 MILES NORTH OF CHATOM...OR 4 MILES WEST OF COFFEEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... COFFEEVILLE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING THEN IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3164 8777 3166 8820 3181 8827 3199 8788 TIME...MOT...LOC 2353Z 252DEG 33KT 3176 8813 $$
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, 5:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 60 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.