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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2006, 5:59 PM CDT for Clarke County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2006, 5:59 PM CDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clarke County, AL, Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 6:05 PM CDT | TORNADO | Opine, AL | PUBLIC REPORT OF A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN OPINE |
| May 10, 6:05 PM CDT | TORNADO | Opine, AL | PUBLIC REPORT OF LARGE TORNADO IN OPINE |
| May 10, 6:11 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Thomasville, AL | REPORTED BY EMA...COULD HEAR IT HITTING CAR IN BACKGROUND |
| May 10, 6:11 PM CDT | HAIL 2.75 | Thomasville, AL | REPOTED BY EMA...COULD HEAR IT HITTING CAR IN BACKGROUND |
| May 10, 6:11 PM CDT | TORNADO | Tallahatta Springs, AL | POSSIBLE TORNADO CAUSED STRUCTUAL DAMAGE TO MEAT PACKING PLANT NEAR HWY. 154...ALSO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL |
| May 10, 6:11 PM CDT | TORNADO | Tallahatta Springs, AL | TORNADO CAUSED STRUCTUAL DAMAGE TO MEAT PACKING PLANT NEAR HWY. 154...ALSO BASEBALL SIZE HAIL |
| May 10, 6:16 PM CDT | HAIL 1.75 | Thomasville, AL | QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 10, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 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
- 379 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 102259 TORMOB ALC025-131-102330- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0029.060510T2259Z-060510T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 559 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER TALLAHATTA SPRINGS...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ROUNDHILL AND RURAL BY 610 PM CDT NETTLEBORO BY 620 PM CDT LOWER PEACH TREE BY 625 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. 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 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3200 8795 3182 8798 3176 8754 3191 8751 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 102315 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 613 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006 ALC025-131-102330- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0029.000000T0000Z-060510T2330Z/ CLARKE AL-WILCOX AL- 613 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN WILCOX AND NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTIES... AT 610 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. BASEBALL SIZED HAIL HAS JUST BEEN REPORTED BY THE CLARKE COUNTY EMA AND A LARGE TORNADO HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN SPOTTED BY THE PUBLIC NEAR OPINE. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF GROVE HILL...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NETTLEBORO BY 625 PM CDT LOWER PEACH TREE BY 630 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3200 8795 3182 8798 3176 8754 3191 8751 $$
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, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 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, 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.