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Tornado Warning 56, NWS Mobile, AL

November 15, 2006Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2006, 10:49 AM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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 15, 2006, 10:49 AM CST (16:49 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2006, 11:15 AM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Nov 15, 9:54 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 651 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 151649
TORMOB
ALC003-151715-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0056.061115T1649Z-061115T1715Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1049 AM CST WED NOV 15 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1115 AM CST

* AT 1046 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR THE MOUTH OF
  WEEKS BAY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MAGNOLIA SPRINGS BY 1055 AM CST
  FOLEY AND SUMMERDALE BY 1100 AM CST
  ELBERTA BY 1105 AM CST
  ELSANOR BY 1110 AM 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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST WEDNESDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3035 8797 3021 8783 3047 8745 3072 8751

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 151707
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1106 AM CST WED NOV 15 2006

ALC003-151715-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0056.000000T0000Z-061115T1715Z/
BALDWIN AL-
1106 AM CST WED NOV 15 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 1115 AM CST FOR SOUTHERN BALDWIN
COUNTY...

AT 1103 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTHWEST OF FOLEY
AND IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE...
  9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROBERTSDALE BY 1110 AM CST
  AND NEAR ELSANOR AND 7 MILES WEST OF SEMINOLE BY 1115 AM CST

REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE CONTINUE TO BE REPORTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH
THESE STORMS. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST WEDNESDAY FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST WEDNESDAY
EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3035 8797 3021 8783 3047 8745 3072 8751

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 8:58 PM CST	Coastal Flood Warning	MOB		24 hr
Nov 15, 2:42 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MOB	Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more	10 hr
Nov 15, 4:40 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	50 min
Nov 15, 5:21 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	54 min
Nov 15, 5:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	59 min
Nov 15, 5:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Clarke	36 min
Nov 15, 6:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe	61 min
Nov 15, 7:12 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Mobile	63 min
Nov 15, 7:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	29 min
Nov 15, 8:38 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	52 min
Nov 15, 9:57 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Nov 15, 10:18 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	27 min
Nov 15, 10:48 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia, Monroe	3 hr
Nov 15, 11:53 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	37 min
Nov 15, 11:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington, Escambia	32 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.