Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Watches in 2006
Tornado Watch 858
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Nov 15, 2006, 9:54 AM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 15, 2006, 9:54 AM CST (15:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 15, 2006, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 70 kt
All 74 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:55 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 80%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 30%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 90%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 80%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
47 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 9:57 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 10:01 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Lowndes, Noxubee | 44 min |
| Nov 15, 10:05 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Kemper, Neshoba | 55 min |
| Nov 15, 10:13 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 10:18 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 27 min |
| Nov 15, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Autauga, Dallas, Hale, Marengo, Perry | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 10:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Pickens | 38 min |
| Nov 15, 10:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Elmore | 40 min |
| Nov 15, 10:48 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 10:49 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Nov 15, 11:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Tallapoosa | 54 min |
| Nov 15, 11:09 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Lee, Macon and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 15, 11:23 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jackson | 97 min |
| Nov 15, 11:28 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LIX | Jackson | 32 min |
| Nov 15, 11:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee | 44 min |
| Nov 15, 11:32 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 28 min |
| Nov 15, 11:40 AM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Chambers | 65 min |
| 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 |
| Nov 15, 12:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 24 min |
| Nov 15, 12:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Pike | 37 min |
| Nov 15, 12:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Coffee, Dale | 19 min |
| Nov 15, 12:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Walton | 47 min |
| Nov 15, 12:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 25 min |
| Nov 15, 12:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 61 min |
| Nov 15, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Bullock | 37 min |
| Nov 15, 12:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Macon | 34 min |
| Nov 15, 12:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Holmes, Walton | 48 min |
| Nov 15, 12:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LIX | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 1:03 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 27 min |
| Nov 15, 1:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Lee | 55 min |
| Nov 15, 1:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 54 min |
| Nov 15, 1:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Russell | 48 min |
| Nov 15, 1:14 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Lowndes, Montgomery | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 1:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 29 min |
| Nov 15, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Dale, Houston | 34 min |
| Nov 15, 1:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 62 min |
| Nov 15, 1:32 PM CST | Tornado Warning | BMX | Barbour | 28 min |
| Nov 15, 1:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Geneva | 48 min |
| Nov 15, 1:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry | 41 min |
| Nov 15, 2:03 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 117 min |
| Nov 15, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Walton | 49 min |
| Nov 15, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Henry, Houston | 35 min |
| Nov 15, 2:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Henry | 35 min |
| Nov 15, 3:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | Washington | 39 min |
| Nov 15, 3:18 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | BMX | Chambers, Lee, Macon, Tallapoosa | 3 hr |
| Nov 15, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TAE | Bay | 38 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 1:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 4:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 15, 5:55 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 7 more | 95 min |
| Nov 15, 9:01 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 15, 9:30 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene, Hale and 8 more | 60 min |
| Nov 15, 12:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 1 more | 57 min |
| Nov 15, 3:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 92 min |
| Nov 15, 12:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 15, 11:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bibb, Brooks, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll and 45 more | 59 min |
| Nov 14, 6:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Claiborne, Lincoln, Morehouse, Union, Webster, West Carroll | 119 min |
| Nov 14, 9:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Evangeline and 7 more | 83 min |
| Nov 14, 11:25 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 11:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Ascension, Avoyelles, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo and 36 more | 58 min |
| Nov 15, 1:59 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Jefferson and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:16 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Catahoula, Claiborne and 16 more | 119 min |
| Nov 15, 3:25 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 5:31 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Nov 15, 7:14 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Acadia, Ascension, Avoyelles, Concordia, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana and 14 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 14, 9:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 30 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:29 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Coahoma, DeSoto, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 15, 4:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, DeSoto and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 15, 12:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Benton, Lafayette, Marshall, Prentiss, Tippah and 2 more | 119 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.