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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2006, 4:56 PM CST for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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, 4:56 PM CST (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2006, 5:45 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clarke County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:59 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 297 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 405 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 202256
TORMOB
ALC025-202345-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0014.060320T2256Z-060320T2345Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
456 PM CST MON MAR 20 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 545 PM CST
* AT 454 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER WEST
BEND...AND MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.
* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
OPINE BY 505 PM CST
CHILTON AND TALLAHATTA SPRINGS BY 510 PM CST
RURAL AND ROUNDHILL BY 515 PM CST
NETTLEBORO BY 520 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
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 3193 8808 3183 8816 3170 8808 3174 8752
3189 8766 3200 8768
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KMOB 202318
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
517 PM CST MON MAR 20 2006
ALC025-202345-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0014.000000T0000Z-060320T2345Z/
CLARKE AL-
517 PM CST MON MAR 20 2006
...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 545 PM CST FOR NORTHERN CLARKE
COUNTY...
AT 516 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TALLAHATTA
SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF GROVE HILL...MOVING EAST AT 55
MPH TOWARD THE THOMASVILLE AREA.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
9 MILES NORTH OF DICKINSON BY 520 PM CST
7 MILES SOUTH OF SHAWNEE AND 9 MILES NORTH OF SCYRENE BY 525 PM CST
6 MILES NORTH OF NETTLEBORO BY 530 PM CST
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST MONDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3193 8808 3183 8816 3170 8808 3174 8752
3189 8766 3200 8768
$$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, 4:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 42 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 |
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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.