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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Mobile, AL

October 31, 2015George County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 31, 2015, 6:31 PM CDT for George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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: Oct 31, 2015, 6:31 PM CDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired: Oct 31, 2015, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.0 in

County George County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Oct 31, 11:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 847 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

162 
WFUS54 KMOB 312331
TORMOB
MSC039-010015-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0014.151031T2331Z-151101T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
631 PM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
    
* AT 630 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF WADE...OR 12 MILES SOUTH
  OF LUCEDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT BARTON AND AGRICOLA.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3078 8871 3095 8843 3074 8841 3073 8846
      3074 8870
TIME...MOT...LOC 2330Z 242DEG 21KT 3076 8865 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...0.00IN

$$

2 follow-up statements

428 
WWUS54 KMOB 312343
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
643 PM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015

MSC039-010015-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-151101T0015Z/
GEORGE MS-
643 PM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN GEORGE COUNTY...
    
AT 642 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF HURLEY...OR 9 MILES SOUTH OF
LUCEDALE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE 
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE DAMAGE IS 
         LIKELY. 

RESIDENTS NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF AGRICOLA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER 
IMMEDIATELY. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3081 8866 3095 8843 3074 8841 3073 8846
      3074 8865
TIME...MOT...LOC 2342Z 245DEG 18KT 3079 8857 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

865 
WWUS54 KMOB 010006
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
706 PM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015

MSC039-010015-
/O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-151101T0015Z/
GEORGE MS-
706 PM CDT SAT OCT 31 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
715 PM CDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEASTERN
MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA.

LAT...LON 3081 8866 3095 8843 3074 8841 3073 8846
      3074 8865
TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 242DEG 21KT 3079 8857 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 31, 4:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne	54 hr
Oct 31, 4:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	25 min
Oct 31, 4:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry, Wayne	49 min
Oct 31, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone	38 min
Oct 31, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	37 min
Oct 31, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	31 min
Oct 31, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	52 min
Oct 31, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Wayne	1 min
Oct 31, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry, Wayne	47 min
Oct 31, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone	44 min
Oct 31, 5:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Greene, Perry, Wayne	3 hr
Oct 31, 6:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	49 min
Oct 31, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	48 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.