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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2006, 4:33 PM CST for Choctaw County, Washington County, Alabama; Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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
- Mar 20, 2006, 4:33 PM CST (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2006, 5:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 3:09 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 420 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 432 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 202235 TORMOB ALC023-129-MSC153-202315- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0012.060320T2233Z-060320T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 433 PM CST MON MAR 20 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 515 PM CST * AT 429 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WINCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... AQUILLA BY 445 PM CST HEALING SPRINGS AND MILLRY BY 450 PM CST KOENTON BY 455 PM CST FRANKVILLE AND SILVER CROSS BY 500 PM CST IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER. MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. COVER YOUR BODY WITH BLANKETS OR PILLOWS. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3185 8851 3157 8869 3153 8804 3194 8823 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 202249 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 447 PM CST MON MAR 20 2006 ALC023-129-MSC153-202315- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0012.000000T0000Z-060320T2315Z/ WASHINGTON AL-CHOCTAW AL-WAYNE MS- 447 PM CST MON MAR 20 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM CST FOR EASTERN WAYNE...CHOCTAW AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES... AT 446 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SOUWILPA OVER SOUTHERN CHOCTAW COUNTY...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 7 MILES NORTH OF BLADON SPRINGS BY 450 PM CST WOMACK HILL AND 7 MILES NORTH OF SERVICE BY 455 PM CST ANOTHER LINE OF SEVERE STORMS WAS MOVING EAST ACROSS CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY. A TORNADO MAY ALSO QUICKLY DEVELOP ALONG THIS LINE AS IT MOVES ACROSS EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY INTO NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA. THE LINE OF SEVERE STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 55 MPH. IN ADDITION TO TORNADOS...THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST MONDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3184 8857 3157 8869 3153 8804 3194 8823 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 1:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 4:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 49 min |
| Mar 20, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 34 min |
| Mar 20, 5:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 26 min |
| Mar 20, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 31 min |
| Mar 20, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 41 min |
| Mar 20, 4:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 39 min |
| Mar 20, 4:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Perry | 28 min |
| Mar 20, 4:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 29 min |
| Mar 20, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 40 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Alabama, 2006Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2006Every tornado warning in 2006Tornadoes 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.