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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL

March 16, 2014Choctaw County, Clarke County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 16, 2014, 5:06 AM CDT for Choctaw County, Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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: Mar 16, 2014, 5:06 AM CDT (10:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2014, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:06 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
Mar 16, 4:51 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1058 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

746 
WFUS54 KMOB 161006
TORMOB
ALC023-025-161030-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0004.140316T1006Z-140316T1030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
506 AM CDT SUN MAR 16 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
  NORTHWESTERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 530 AM CDT

* AT 505 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF
  GILBERTOWN...OR 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF QUITMAN...MOVING EAST AT 45
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  TOXEY BY 515 AM CDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE 
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT SUNDAY FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

&&

LAT...LON 3201 8811 3200 8810 3201 8808 3199 8806
      3199 8791 3185 8789 3181 8847 3190 8848
      3200 8846 3205 8811
TIME...MOT...LOC 1006Z 262DEG 39KT 3191 8840

$$

JP

1 follow-up statement

556 
WWUS54 KMOB 161018
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
518 AM CDT SUN MAR 16 2014

ALC023-025-161030-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-140316T1030Z/
CHOCTAW AL-CLARKE AL-
518 AM CDT SUN MAR 16 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 AM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN CLARKE AND CENTRAL CHOCTAW COUNTIES...

AT 518 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TOXEY...OR 14
MILES SOUTH OF BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WOMACK HILL AND ARARAT BY 525 AM CDT...
  CUNNINGHAM...SPRING HILL...ROCK SPRINGS AND WOODS BLUFF BY 530 AM
  CDT...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT SUNDAY FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

&&

LAT...LON 3190 8832 3196 8830 3199 8806 3199 8791
      3185 8789 3182 8833
TIME...MOT...LOC 1018Z 269DEG 37KT 3190 8826

$$

JP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 3:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MOB	Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more	9 hr
Mar 16, 5:30 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke	30 min
Mar 16, 5:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	52 min
Mar 16, 6:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	45 min
Mar 16, 6:31 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	44 min
Mar 16, 6:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	2 hr
Mar 16, 7:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Mar 16, 7:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	4 hr
Mar 16, 7:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	44 min
Mar 16, 7:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	31 min
Mar 16, 8:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	27 min
Mar 16, 8:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	62 min
Mar 16, 8:31 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		89 min
Mar 16, 8:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington	38 min
Mar 16, 9:01 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia	29 min
Mar 16, 9:19 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Mobile and 1 more	6 hr
Mar 16, 9:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		95 min
Mar 16, 9:48 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		117 min
Mar 16, 9:49 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Covington, Escambia	3 hr
Mar 16, 10:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Mar 16, 10:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	52 min
Mar 16, 10:14 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		91 min
Mar 16, 10:59 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		91 min
Mar 16, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		85 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.