Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 20, 2006, 6:19 PM CST for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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, 6:19 PM CST (00:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2006, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 906 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMOB 210019
TORMOB
ALC129-210045-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0017.060321T0019Z-060321T0045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
619 PM CST MON MAR 20 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 645 PM CST
* AT 618 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO FROM
JORDON TO VINEGAR BEND...AND MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
ST STEPHENS AND TOPTON BY 630 PM CST
WAGARVILLE AND SUNFLOWER BY 635 PM CST
TOINETTE AND PRESTWICK BY 640 PM CST
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE DANGEROUS STORMS...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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST MONDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3154 8829 3122 8840 3122 8799 3139 8792
3150 8794 3160 8807
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 6:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 24 min |
| Mar 20, 6:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 51 min |
| Mar 20, 7:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 7:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 67 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.