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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL

October 16, 2006Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 16, 2006, 6:23 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired: Oct 16, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 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), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 162325
TORMOB
ALC097-170000-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0036.061016T2323Z-061017T0000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
623 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 621 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER COTTAGE    
  HILL PARK...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO   
  WAS LOCATED NEAR KUSHLA AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FOREST HILL AND MAGNOLIA GROVE GOLF COURSE BY 630 PM CDT
  KUSHLA AND EIGHT MILE BY 635 PM CDT
  OAK GROVE AND SARALAND BY 640 PM CDT
  CELESTE AND CHUNCHULA BY 645 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.

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 3057 8829 3056 8808 3114 8796 3115 8828

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 162340
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
638 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006

ALC097-170000-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-061017T0000Z/
MOBILE AL-
638 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR MOBILE COUNTY...

AT 637 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE 3 POSSIBLE TORNADOES.  ONE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR 
TURNERVILLE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN MOBILE...MOVING 
NORTH AT 35 MPH. ANOTHER WAS LOCATED NEAR KUSHLA...WHILE THE THIRD 
POSSIBLE TORNADO PRODUCING STROM WAS COMING ONSHORE JUST WEST OF 
BAYOU LA BATRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING 
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3037 8839 3032 8815 3114 8796 3115 8828

$$

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, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	46 min
Oct 16, 6:19 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	41 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

Nearby

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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.