Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

May 9, 2006, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)

Expired

May 9, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, AL

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WUUS54 KMOB 092355
SVRMOB
ALC099-100045-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0113.060509T2355Z-060510T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
655 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 650 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF CLAIBORNE...OR ABOUT 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GROVE
  HILL...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLAIBORNE BY 705 PM CDT
  MANISTEE AND PERDUE HILL BY 710 PM CDT
  MEXIA AND FRISCO CITY BY 720 PM CDT
  EXCEL AND WEST MONROEVILLE BY 725 PM CDT

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3160 8715 3138 8734 3142 8768 3143 8766
      3142 8760 3146 8755 3149 8755 3153 8760
      3157 8755

$$

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 100012
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
712 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006

ALC099-100045-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-060510T0045Z/
MONROE AL-
712 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR
CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY...

AT 707 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR MANISTEE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MONROEVILLE...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FRISCO CITY AND MEGARGEL BY 720 PM CDT
  EXCEL BY 725 PM CDT
  7 MILES SOUTH OF DREWRY BY 735 PM CDT

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 3149 8722 3133 8737 3140 8762 3146 8755
      3149 8755 3154 8755

$$

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.