Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 1:11 PM CST for Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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 1, 2007, 1:11 PM CST (19:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:28 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 724 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 855 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMOB 011911
TORMOB
ALC099-012000-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0018.070301T1911Z-070301T2000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
111 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 200 PM CST
* AT 106 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF FINCHBURG...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GROVE
HILL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
KEITH AND FRANKLIN BY 125 PM CST...
RIVER RIDGE BY 130 PM CST...
NATCHEZ BY 135 PM CST...
CORDUROY STATION...BEATRICE...BUENA VISTA AND CHESTNUT BY 140 PM
CST...
TURKESTAN AND NADAWAH BY 145 PM CST...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3177 8695 3156 8755 3171 8755 3171 8752
3176 8749 3184 8732 3182 8717 3184 8715
3184 8703
$$3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KMOB 011931
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
131 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
ALC099-012000-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-070301T2000Z/
MONROE AL-
131 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY...
AT 127 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR KEITH...OR ABOUT 8
MILES NORTH OF MONROEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
CORDUROY STATION...BEATRICE AND BUENA VISTA BY 140 PM CST...
TURKESTAN...CHESTNUT AND TURNBULL BY 145 PM CST...
NADAWAH BY 150 PM CST...
MCWILLIAMS AND 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF AL 47 AND CR 29 ROADS BY 155 PM
CST...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3177 8695 3160 8733 3168 8742 3183 8732
3183 8719 3184 8715 3184 8703
$$000
WWUS54 KMOB 011940
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
140 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
ALC099-012000-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-070301T2000Z/
MONROE AL-
140 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY...
AT 136 PM CST...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR RIVER RIDGE...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF
MONROEVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
BEATRICE...CORDUROY STATION...BUENA VISTA AND CHESTNUT BY 145 PM
CST...
TURKESTAN AND TURNBULL BY 150 PM CST...
NADAWAH BY 155 PM CST...
MCWILLIAMS AND AL 47 AND CR 29 ROADS BY 200 PM CST...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3177 8695 3164 8726 3170 8733 3179 8728
3183 8719 3184 8715 3184 8703
$$000
WWUS54 KMOB 011953
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
153 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
ALC099-012003-
/O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0018.000000T0000Z-070301T2000Z/
MONROE AL-
153 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 200 PM CST...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3177 8695 3164 8726 3170 8733 3179 8728
3183 8719 3184 8715 3184 8703
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:56 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 21 min |
| Mar 1, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 9:22 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
| Mar 1, 9:50 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 25 min |
| Mar 1, 10:27 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 33 min |
| Mar 1, 10:34 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 41 min |
| Mar 1, 11:20 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 25 min |
| Mar 1, 11:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 18 min |
| Mar 1, 11:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 55 min |
| Mar 1, 11:42 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 11:58 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 12:18 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 42 min |
| Mar 1, 12:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 39 min |
| Mar 1, 12:27 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 1:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 44 min |
| Mar 1, 1:55 PM CST | Wind Advisory | MOB | Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 2:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 3:26 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 3:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 4:10 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 35 min |
| Mar 1, 4:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 26 min |
| Mar 1, 4:29 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 5:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 32 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.