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Tornado Warning 79, NWS Birmingham, AL

November 15, 2006Barbour County, Alabama

NWS Birmingham, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2006, 1:32 PM CST for Barbour 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: Nov 15, 2006, 1:32 PM CST (19:32 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2006, 2:00 PM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Birmingham, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barbour County, AL

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 15, 9:54 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 646 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 252 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.

000 
WFUS54 KBMX 151932
TORBMX
ALC005-152000-
/O.NEW.KBMX.TO.W.0079.061115T1932Z-061115T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
132 PM CST WED NOV 15 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BIRMINGHAM HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BARBOUR COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 200 PM CST

* AT 131 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  BATESVILLE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF EUFAULA...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...
ON THE WEB WWW.SRH.NOAA.GOV/BMX (SUBMIT A STORM REPORT)
CALL 1-800-856-0758.

LAT...LON 3201 8532 3197 8526 3207 8511 3207 8519
      3214 8524

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 4:07 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BMX	Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 33 more	10 hr
Nov 15, 5:22 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Marengo	53 min
Nov 15, 9:34 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lowndes	26 min
Nov 15, 9:38 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Lamar, Marion	37 min
Nov 15, 9:53 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Montgomery	52 min
Nov 15, 10:13 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	3 hr
Nov 15, 10:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Winston	41 min
Nov 15, 10:20 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Autauga, Dallas, Hale, Marengo, Perry	3 hr
Nov 15, 10:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BMX	Pickens	38 min
Nov 15, 10:35 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Elmore	40 min
Nov 15, 11:06 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Tallapoosa	54 min
Nov 15, 11:09 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lee, Macon and 2 more	4 hr
Nov 15, 11:32 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee	28 min
Nov 15, 11:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Chambers	65 min
Nov 15, 11:57 AM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Randolph	63 min
Nov 15, 12:08 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Pike	37 min
Nov 15, 12:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Barbour	61 min
Nov 15, 12:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Bullock	37 min
Nov 15, 12:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Macon	34 min
Nov 15, 1:05 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Lee	55 min
Nov 15, 1:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	BMX	Russell	48 min
Nov 15, 1:14 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Lowndes, Montgomery	3 hr
Nov 15, 3:18 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	BMX	Chambers, Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa	3 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.