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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Mobile, AL

November 14, 2006Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 14, 2006, 6:45 PM CST for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 30 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: Nov 14, 2006, 6:45 PM CST (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Nov 14, 2006, 7:15 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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 nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 68 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: 268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 357 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 467 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 150045
TORMOB
MSC131-150115-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0045.061115T0045Z-061115T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
645 PM CST TUE NOV 14 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 715 PM CST

* AT 640 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER ROGERS
  LAKE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PERRY AND TEN MILE BY 710 PM CST
  WLOX TV STATION TOWER AND PERKINSTON BY 715 PM CST

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.

LAT...LON 3078 8947 3061 8943 3065 8899 3087 8903

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 150056
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
655 PM CST TUE NOV 14 2006

MSC131-150115-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-061115T0115Z/
STONE MS-
655 PM CST TUE NOV 14 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR WESTERN STONE
COUNTY...

AT 648 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ROGERS LAKE...OR
ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WIGGINS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PERRY...MCHENRY...TEN MILE AND PERKINSTON BY 700 PM CST
  WLOX TV STATION TOWER BY 705 PM CST
  9 MILES SOUTH OF WHITES CROSSING BY 710 PM CST

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 
NICKEL SIZE OR LARGER HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. 
REPORTS OF A TORNADO ON THE GROUND WERE RECEIVED BY THE NATIONAL 
WEATHER SERVICE FROM THE PUBLIC FURTHER WEST ALONG INTERSTATE 59 
NEAR MCNEILL. TREES WERE ALSO REPORTED DOWN IN THOSE AREAS. THIS 
INDICATES THAT THE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE PRONE TO ALLOW TORNADO 
FORMATION.

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.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE
STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER
YOUR HEAD.

LAT...LON 3078 8947 3061 8943 3065 8899 3087 8903

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Stone	26 min
Nov 15, 2:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	46 min
Nov 15, 2:42 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MOB	George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne	10 hr
Nov 15, 3:42 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	63 min
Nov 15, 4:26 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	32 min
Nov 15, 4:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene	45 min
Nov 15, 5:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	George	59 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.