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Tornado Warning 62, NWS Mobile, AL

December 12, 2006Choctaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 12, 2006, 1:49 PM CST for Choctaw 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: Dec 12, 2006, 1:49 PM CST (19:49 UTC)
Expired: Dec 12, 2006, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Choctaw County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 161 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:50 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

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -199 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 625 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 121949
TORMOB
ALC023-122015-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0062.061212T1949Z-061212T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
149 PM CST TUE DEC 12 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 146 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HINTON...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RIDERWOOD BY 155 PM CST
  BUTLER AND LISMAN BY 200 PM CST
  MT STERLING BY 205 PM CST
  LAVACA AND CHOCTAW CITY BY 215 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.

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.

LAT...LON 3214 8852 3197 8846 3208 8789 3230 8796

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 122004
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
203 PM CST TUE DEC 12 2006

ALC023-122015-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0062.000000T0000Z-061212T2015Z/
CHOCTAW AL-
203 PM CST TUE DEC 12 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 PM CST FOR NORTHEASTERN
CHOCTAW COUNTY...

AT 201 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BUTLER...MOVING 
EAST AT 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  LAVACA...CHOCTAW CITY...ROBJOHN AND DEAS BY 210 PM CST
  PENNINGTON...NAHEOLA...7 MILES SOUTH OF INDIAN SPRINGS AND 9 MILES
  SOUTH OF OAKCHIA BY 215 PM CST

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

LAT...LON 3216 8833 3198 8833 3197 8810 3206 8812
      3209 8806 3218 8802 3231 8799

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 12, 2:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	30 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.