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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 16, 2006, 6:50 PM CDT for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2006, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greene County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 162350 TORMOB MSC041-170030- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0037.061016T2350Z-061017T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 650 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 648 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF VERNAL...AND MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LEAKESVILLE AND 6 MILES EAST OF NEELY BY 700 PM CDT JONATHAN BY 705 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 3101 8882 3100 8854 3144 8854 3144 8882 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 170027 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 725 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 MSC041-170035- /O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0037.000000T0000Z-061017T0030Z/ GREENE MS- 725 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN GREENE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 730 PM CDT... ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM THIS EVENING... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3101 8882 3100 8854 3144 8854 3144 8882 $$
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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.