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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 2, 2006, 6:43 AM CST for Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 17 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
- Feb 2, 2006, 6:43 AM CST (12:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 2, 2006, 7:00 AM CST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Escambia County, FL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2:10 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 021244 TORMOB FLC033-021300- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0007.060202T1243Z-060202T1300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 643 AM CST THU FEB 2 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 700 AM CST * AT 640 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PERDIDO KEY...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PERDIDO KEY AND JOHNSONS BEACH BY 650 AM CST MYRTLE GROVE AND BELLVIEW BY 700 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 1000 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3024 8758 3021 8754 3044 8721 3048 8734 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 021304 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 703 AM CST THU FEB 2 2006 FLC033-021313- /O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-060202T1300Z/ ESCAMBIA FL- 703 AM CST THU FEB 2 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY WAS ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 700 AM CST... THE RADAR DETECTED TORNADO OVER THE GULF WATERS HAD WEAKENED AND POSSIBLY LIFTED BEFORE REACHING SHORE. SEVERAL THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE GULF SHOW SIMILAR SIGNS OF ROTATION...AND WILL BE MONITORED FOR PERSISTENT ROTATION PRIOR TO REACHING SHORE. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM CST THURSDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3024 8758 3021 8754 3044 8721 3048 8734 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 4:30 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Feb 2, 6:32 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 118 min | |
| Feb 2, 9:20 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 85 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.