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Tornado Warning 63, NWS Mobile, AL

December 12, 2006Choctaw County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 12, 2006, 2:15 PM CST for Choctaw County, Alabama. 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: Dec 12, 2006, 2:15 PM CST (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Dec 12, 2006, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 30 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), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 180 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 122015
TORMOB
ALC023-122045-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0063.061212T2015Z-061212T2045Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 245 PM CST

* AT 212 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER LAND...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BUTLER BY 220 PM CST
  MT STERLING BY 225 PM CST
  LAVACA BY 230 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.

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 3209 8840 3192 8834 3198 8808 3202 8813
      3207 8812 3209 8806 3220 8801

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 122028
SVSMOB

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

ALC023-122045-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0063.000000T0000Z-061212T2045Z/
CHOCTAW AL-
227 PM CST TUE DEC 12 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 245 PM CST FOR EAST CENTRAL
CHOCTAW COUNTY...

AT 225 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MT STERLING...OR 
ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF BUTLER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...

  LAVACA BY 235 PM CST...PASSING OVER RURAL AREAS BETWEEN LAVACA
  AND ARARAT.
  

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 3210 8829 3201 8829 3198 8808 3202 8812
      3207 8812 3209 8806 3220 8801

$$

000 
WWUS54 KMOB 122039
SVSMOB

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

ALC023-122047-
/O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0063.000000T0000Z-061212T2045Z/
CHOCTAW AL-
237 PM CST TUE DEC 12 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL CHOCTAW COUNTY EXPIRES AT 245
PM CST...

AT 237 PM CST...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED A 
POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF MOUNT STERLING.

ON THIS HEADING...THE TORNADO SHOULD PASS SOUTH OF LAVACA AND REMAIN 
OVER RURAL AREAS OF THE FAR EASTERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY.  THE 
TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 40 MPH.

LAT...LON 3210 8829 3201 8829 3198 8808 3202 8812
      3207 8812 3209 8806 3220 8801

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 12, 1:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	26 min

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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.