Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2006, 8:13 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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
- May 9, 2006, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2006, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 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), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 100113 TORMOB ALC025-100200- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0026.060510T0113Z-060510T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 813 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 811 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINN...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... JACKSON BY 830 PM CDT WALKER SPRINGS BY 835 PM CDT ALMA AND MANILLA BY 845 PM CDT CHOCTAW BLUFF BY 855 PM CDT 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. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3169 8793 3161 8804 3136 8783 3145 8767 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 100134 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 834 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ALC025-100200- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-060510T0200Z/ CLARKE AL- 834 PM CDT TUE MAY 9 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN CLARKE COUNTY... AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF JACKSON...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF GROVE HILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ALMA AND MANILLA BY 845 PM CDT CHOCTAW BLUFF BY 855 PM CDT IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3169 8793 3161 8804 3137 8778 3147 8768 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 7:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 34 min |
| May 9, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 17 min |
| May 9, 7:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 47 min |
| May 9, 8:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 50 min |
| May 9, 8:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 40 min |
| May 9, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 28 min |
| May 9, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 39 min |
| May 10, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 50 min |
| May 10, 3:13 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 2 hr |
| May 10, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 19 min |
| May 10, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 42 min |
| May 10, 4:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 60 min |
| May 10, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 21 min |
| May 10, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 66 min |
| May 10, 5:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Wilcox | 3 hr |
| May 10, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 26 min |
| May 10, 5:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 38 min |
| May 10, 5:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 31 min |
| May 10, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Wilcox | 44 min |
| May 10, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 47 min |
| May 10, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 47 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.