Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 25, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 4:29 PM CST for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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, 4:29 PM CST (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crenshaw County, AL
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, 9:47 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 012230
TORMOB
ALC041-012300-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0025.070301T2229Z-070301T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
429 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 500 PM CST
* AT 424 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF
HONORAVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF LUVERNE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS UPGRADES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
BRADLEYTON...PETREY AND HIGHLAND HOME BY 435 PM CST...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
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 3183 8647 3168 8637 3180 8620 3196 8619
3200 8632
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KMOB 012239 RRA
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
440 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
ALC041-012300-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-070301T2300Z/
CRENSHAW AL-
440 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST FOR NORTHERN
CRENSHAW COUNTY...
AT 436 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LIVE OAK...OR
ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF LUVERNE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 800 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3183 8647 3168 8637 3180 8620 3196 8619
3200 8632
$$000
WWUS54 KMOB 012252
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
452 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
ALC041-012302-
/O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0025.000000T0000Z-070301T2300Z/
CRENSHAW AL-
452 PM CST THU MAR 1 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT
500 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 3183 8647 3168 8637 3180 8620 3196 8619
3200 8632
$$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, 1:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 49 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, 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.