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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2006, 6:28 PM CDT for Monroe 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 10, 2006, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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 10, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 573 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMOB 102330
TORMOB
ALC099-110015-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0030.060510T2328Z-060511T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
630 PM CDT WED MAY 10 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 627 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF PACKARDS BEND...AND MOVING
EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
BETWEEN PACKARDS BEND AND FINCHBERG BY 640 PM CDT
FRANKLIN BY 650 PM CDT
KEITH BY 655 PM CDT
THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING A TORNADO AND BASEBALL
SIZE HAIL.
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 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 3170 8756 3161 8756 3147 8720 3183 8706
3183 8752 3170 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, 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 | 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.