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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 16, 2014, 10:33 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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
- Nov 16, 2014, 10:33 PM CST (04:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2014, 11:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 9:49 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
580 WFUS54 KMOB 170433 TORMOB MSC153-170515- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0031.141117T0433Z-141117T0515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1033 PM CST SUN NOV 16 2014 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... * UNTIL 1115 PM CST * AT 1030 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAUREL...OR 4 MILES SOUTH OF SANDERSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... RURAL NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. && LAT...LON 3183 8894 3185 8868 3171 8895 3182 8895 TIME...MOT...LOC 0433Z 236DEG 41KT 3175 8902 $$
1 follow-up statement
917 WWUS54 KMOB 170510 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1110 PM CST SUN NOV 16 2014 MSC153-170520- /O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0031.000000T0000Z-141117T0515Z/ WAYNE MS- 1110 PM CST SUN NOV 16 2014 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE FOR NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY... AT 1109 PM CST...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY HAS MOVED TO THE NORTH OF THE COUNTY...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 1115 PM CST. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CST MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3183 8894 3185 8868 3171 8895 3182 8895 TIME...MOT...LOC 0510Z 236DEG 41KT 3199 8861 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 11:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 22 min |
| Nov 17, 4:24 AM CST | Hard Freeze Watch | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 26 hr |
| Nov 17, 4:24 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 26 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.