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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 3, 2016, 6:14 AM CST for Covington County, Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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 3, 2016, 6:14 AM CST (12:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2016, 6:42 AM CST
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:13 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 nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
793
WFUS54 KMOB 031214
TORMOB
ALC039-041-031300-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0002.160203T1214Z-160203T1300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
614 AM CST WED FEB 3 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
NORTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 700 AM CST
* AT 613 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER GANTT...OR 6 MILES NORTH OF ANDALUSIA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 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 DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
ROSE HILL AROUND 620 AM CST.
DOZIER AROUND 625 AM CST.
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 3134 8631 3137 8649 3141 8652 3152 8640
3155 8632 3153 8630 3153 8628 3144 8619
3143 8620 3137 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 1213Z 236DEG 36KT 3141 8646
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$2 follow-up statements
551
WWUS54 KMOB 031229
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
629 AM CST WED FEB 3 2016
ALC039-041-031300-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160203T1300Z/
CRENSHAW AL-COVINGTON AL-
629 AM CST WED FEB 3 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 AM CST FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL CRENSHAW AND NORTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTIES...
AT 628 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR DOZIER...OR 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF ELBA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
SOUTH CENTRAL CRENSHAW AND NORTHEASTERN COVINGTON COUNTIES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3141 8633 3143 8638 3152 8640 3155 8632
3153 8630 3153 8628 3144 8619 3143 8620
3142 8620
TIME...MOT...LOC 1228Z 236DEG 36KT 3150 8631
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$651
WWUS54 KMOB 031242
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
642 AM CST WED FEB 3 2016
ALC039-041-031252-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160203T1300Z/
CRENSHAW AL-COVINGTON AL-
642 AM CST WED FEB 3 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL CRENSHAW AND NORTHEASTERN
COVINGTON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3141 8633 3143 8638 3152 8640 3155 8632
3153 8630 3153 8628 3144 8619 3143 8620
3142 8620
TIME...MOT...LOC 1241Z 236DEG 36KT 3158 8617
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2:16 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 89 min |
| Feb 3, 3:46 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Feb 3, 4:14 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 61 min |
| Feb 3, 4:38 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 10 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:42 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Feb 3, 5:44 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Covington | 61 min |
| Feb 3, 6:07 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Feb 3, 6:27 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 16 min |
| Feb 3, 6:48 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 87 min | |
| Feb 3, 8:07 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Feb 3, 9:20 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 5 days |
| Feb 3, 9:22 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Feb 3, 10:18 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Feb 3, 2:13 PM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 5 days |
| Feb 3, 3:22 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 45 hr |
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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.