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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Mobile, AL

February 10, 2013Clarke County, Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 2013, 6:12 PM CST for Clarke County, Monroe County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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, 6:12 PM CST (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Feb 10, 2013, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Clarke County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

902 
WFUS54 KMOB 110012
TORMOB
ALC025-099-131-110115-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0008.130211T0012Z-130211T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
612 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  WESTERN WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
  NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 715 PM CST

* AT 609 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND
  LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF GROVE
  HILL...OR 10 MILES WEST OF FULTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  BOYKIN...             YELLOW BLUFF...       PINE HILL...
  CAMDEN...             THOMASVILLE...        FULTON...
  VREDENBURGH...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

&&

LAT...LON 3215 8727 3214 8725 3213 8725 3210 8721
      3180 8710 3168 8801 3183 8807 3200 8771
      3201 8763 3204 8763 3219 8731
TIME...MOT...LOC 0011Z 253DEG 40KT 3180 8788

$$

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, 6:26 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, 6:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw	54 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

Nearby

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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.