Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 2006, 7:16 PM CST for Washington County, Alabama; Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 9, 2006, 7:16 PM CST (01:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2006, 7:45 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Washington County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 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 nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 1501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -90 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 100118
TORMOB
ALC129-MSC153-100145-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0009.060310T0116Z-060310T0145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
716 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 745 PM CST
* AT 715 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
BUCKATUNNA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
MILLRY AND HEALING SPRINGS BY 730 PM CST
KOENTON BY 735 PM CST
SILVER CROSS AND BIGBEE BY 740 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 3160 8855 3151 8854 3158 8816 3171 8815
3166 8844
$$2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS54 KMOB 100131 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 730 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 MSC153-100140- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060310T0145Z/ WAYNE MS- 730 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WAYNE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE STORM HAS MOVED EAST OF THE COUNTY INTO ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3168 8839 3160 8836 3160 8816 3171 8815 $$ ALC129-100145- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060310T0145Z/ WASHINGTON AL- 730 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 745 PM CST FOR NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY... AT 726 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HEALING SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF CHATOM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BIGBEE BY 735 PM CST SILVER CROSS BY 740 PM CST LAT...LON 3168 8839 3160 8836 3160 8816 3171 8815 $$
000 WWUS54 KMOB 100146 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 745 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ALC129-100153- /O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-060310T0145Z/ WASHINGTON AL- 745 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON COUNTY HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 745 PM CST... THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED...BUT MAY STILL BE PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS TO AROUND 50 MPH AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST THROUGH THE FRANKVILLE AREA OF NORTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. LAT...LON 3168 8839 3160 8836 3160 8816 3171 8815 $$
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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.