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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 10, 2013, 6:26 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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, 6:26 PM CST (00:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 10, 2013, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 7:05 PM CST | TORNADO | Clara, MS | TORNADO REPORTED NEAR CLARA. HOME DAMAGED ON HIGHWAY 63. TREES DOWN ON HUDSON TOWN ROAD |
| Feb 10, 7:18 PM CST | TORNADO | Denham, MS | TRAILER BLOWN OFF ITS BLOCKS AND A ROOF OFF OF A HOME ON DENHAM PROGRESS ROAD. INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED BUT THE NUMBER IS UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME. MULTIPLE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN AS WELL. |
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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -229 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 659 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
090 WFUS54 KMOB 110026 TORMOB MSC153-110130- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0009.130211T0026Z-130211T0130Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 626 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 623 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ELLISVILLE...OR 19 MILES SOUTH OF SANDERSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WAYNESBORO... CLARA... BUCKATUNNA... 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 3180 8857 3149 8847 3146 8895 3168 8895 TIME...MOT...LOC 0025Z 255DEG 29KT 3152 8911 $$
2 follow-up statements
388 WWUS54 KMOB 110041 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 641 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 MSC153-110130- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-130211T0130Z/ WAYNE MS- 641 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CST FOR CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY... AT 637 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 14 MILES NORTH OF RICHTON...OR 16 MILES WEST OF CLARA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WAYNESBORO... CLARA... BUCKATUNNA... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CST SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3180 8857 3149 8847 3148 8895 3167 8895 TIME...MOT...LOC 0042Z 255DEG 29KT 3156 8892 $$
057 WWUS54 KMOB 110053 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 653 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 MSC153-110130- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-130211T0130Z/ WAYNE MS- 653 PM CST SUN FEB 10 2013 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CST FOR CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY... AT 651 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION AND LIKELY PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAYNESBORO...OR 8 MILES WEST OF CLARA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... WAYNESBORO... CLARA... BUCKATUNNA... 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 3150 8884 3160 8890 3180 8857 3149 8847 TIME...MOT...LOC 0054Z 258DEG 25KT 3156 8881 $$
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 | Wayne | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 49 min |
| Feb 10, 8:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 64 min |
| Feb 11, 12:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:47 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Perry | 43 hr |
| Feb 11, 5:33 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MOB | George, Stone | 3 hr |
| Feb 11, 6:29 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Feb 11, 9:49 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 10 days |
| Feb 11, 9:49 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Jackson | 20 days |
| Feb 11, 12:14 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 18 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.