Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 1, 2006, 2:59 PM CST for Conecuh County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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
- Jan 1, 2006, 2:59 PM CST (20:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2006, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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 nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 012059 SVRMOB ALC035-053-012145- /O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0002.060101T2059Z-060101T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 259 PM CST SUN JAN 1 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 345 PM CST * AT 258 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BARNETT CROSSROADS...OR ABOUT 18 MILES NORTHWEST OF BREWTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RANGE AND I65 AND AL 41 BY 310 PM CST LENOX BY 315 PM CST I65 AND CR 6 BY 320 PM CST BELLEVILLE BY 330 PM CST 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. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3127 8746 3113 8734 3134 8690 3154 8710 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 012125 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 325 PM CST SUN JAN 1 2006 ALC035-053-012145- /O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060101T2145Z/ ESCAMBIA AL-CONECUH AL- 325 PM CST SUN JAN 1 2006 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 345 PM CST FOR SOUTHERN CONECUH AND NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTIES... AT 323 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL... AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CASTLEBERRY...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF EVERGREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... NYMPH BY 330 PM CST JOHNSONVILLE...6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EVERGREEN AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF I65 AND AL 83 BY 335 PM CST 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OWASSA BY 340 PM CST 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BROWNVILLE BY 345 PM CST LAT...LON 3134 8724 3116 8710 3129 8678 3151 8693 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 2:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Monroe | 37 min |
| Jan 1, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 35 min |
| Jan 1, 3:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington | 33 min |
| Jan 1, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 35 min |
| Jan 1, 3:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 32 min |
| Jan 1, 4:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 51 min |
| Jan 1, 4:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 30 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.