Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 39, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 16, 2006, 6:57 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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, 6:57 PM CDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 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), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 162357 TORMOB ALC097-170045- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0039.061016T2357Z-061017T0045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 657 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 745 PM CDT * AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER DEES...AND MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SEVEN HILLS AND MOBILE AIRPORT BY 705 PM CDT SNOW AND TANNER WILLIAMS AND BIG CREEK LAKE DAM BY 710 PM CDT SEMMES AND BIG CREEK LAKE BY 715 PM CDT LOTT AND COLEMAN DAIRY RO BY 720 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 3052 8840 3050 8819 3110 8807 3113 8835 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KMOB 170010 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 706 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ALC097-170045- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-061017T0045Z/ MOBILE AL- 706 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR MOBILE COUNTY... AT 700 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DEES...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ESCATAWPA...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SEMMES...BIG CREEK LAKE AND MAGNOLIA GROVE GOLF COURSE BY 715 PM CDT LOTT AND COLEMAN DAIRY RO AND OAK GROVE BY 725 PM CDT GEORGETOWN BY 730 PM CDT CHUNCHULA BY 735 PM CDT GULFCREST BY 740 PM CDT SIDNEY AND CITRONELLE BY 745 PM CDT ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DETECTED OVER THE MISSISSIPPI SOUND JUST SOUTH OF CODEN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR CODEN AND BAYOU LA BATRE AND POINTS JUST NORTH DURING THE NEXT 15 TO 30 MINUTES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3023 8839 3024 8808 3110 8807 3113 8835 $$
000 WWUS54 KMOB 170031 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 731 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ALC097-170045- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-061017T0045Z/ MOBILE AL- 731 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR MOBILE COUNTY... AT 728 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR I10 AND MCDONALD ROAD...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN MOBILE...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA...COTTAGE HILL PARK...AIRPORT AND UNIVERSITY AND MOBILE AIRPORT BY 740 PM CDT LANGAN PARK...MAGNOLIA GROVE GOLF COURSE...FOREST HILL AND I65 AND MOFFETT ROAD BY 745 PM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3023 8839 3024 8808 3110 8807 3113 8835 $$
000 WWUS54 KMOB 170043 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 742 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ALC097-170052- /O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-061017T0045Z/ MOBILE AL- 742 PM CDT MON OCT 16 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MOBILE COUNTY WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 745 PM CDT... HOWEVER THIS STORM STILL SHOWS SIGNS OF WEAK ROTATION NEAR THE MOBILE REGIONAL AIRPORT. IF THE ROTATION DOES NOT INCREASE WE WILL NOT REISSUE THE WARNING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3023 8839 3024 8808 3110 8807 3113 8835 $$
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, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 37 min |
| Oct 16, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 37 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.