Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 16, 2006, 5:44 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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
- Oct 16, 2006, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2006, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 761 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 526 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 162244 TORMOB ALC097-162330- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0034.061016T2244Z-061016T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 544 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 543 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER LAURENDINE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... THEODORE AND MOBILE GREYHOUND PARK BY 550 PM CDT TILLMANS CORNER AND KNOLLWOOD HOSPITAL BY 555 PM CDT COTTAGE HILL PARK AND BROOKLEY FIELD AIRPORT BY 600 PM CDT SPRING HILL COLLEGE AND FOREST HILL BY 605 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. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3040 8827 3039 8807 3087 8800 3088 8826 $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KMOB 162256 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 555 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ALC097-162330- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-061016T2330Z/ MOBILE AL- 555 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY... AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR TILLMANS CORNER... OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN MOBILE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED IN SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY NEAR DELCHAMPS AND WAS ALSO MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... KNOLLWOOD HOSPITAL...I10 AND I65 INTERSECTION AND BROOKLEY FIELD AIRPORT BY 600 PM CDT SPRING HILL COLLEGE...AIRPORT AND UNIVERSITY...I65 AND AIRPORT BLVD AND COTTAGE HILL PARK BY 605 PM CDT FOREST HILL...LANGAN PARK AND UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA BY 610 PM CDT WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3040 8827 3039 8807 3087 8800 3088 8826 $$
000 WWUS54 KMOB 162311 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 610 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ALC097-162330- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-061016T2330Z/ MOBILE AL- 610 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY... AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR AIRPORT AND UNIVERSITY...OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF DOWNTOWN MOBILE...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER TORNADO WAS LOCATED THEODORE MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR AIRPORT AND COTTAGE HILL ROADS AT 605 PM. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... EIGHT MILE...I65 AND US 45...WHISTLER AND MAGNOLIA GROVE GOLF COURSE BY 615 PM CDT KUSHLA AND I65 AND AL 158 BY 620 PM CDT OAK GROVE AND SARALAND BY 625 PM CDT SATSUMA AND I65 AND US 43 BY 630 PM CDT 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. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3040 8827 3039 8807 3087 8800 3088 8826 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 10:40 AM CDT | Coastal Flood Warning | MOB | 29 hr | |
| Oct 16, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 41 min |
| Oct 16, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 37 min |
| Oct 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 37 min |
| Oct 16, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 48 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.