Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 50, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 22, 2007, 4:43 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 22, 2007, 4:43 PM CDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 22, 2007, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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 was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 4:55 PM CDT | TORNADO | 5 Se Irvington, AL | A TORNADO WAS REPORTED ON THE GROUND WITH UNSPECIFIED DAMAGE AT ROY E. RAY AIRPORT ROAD AND PADGETT SWITCH ROAD. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 595 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 222145 TORMOB ALC097-222215- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0050.071022T2143Z-071022T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 443 PM CDT MON OCT 22 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS EXTENDED THE * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EXTREME SOUTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 440 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR CODEN...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SOUTH ORCHARD BY 450 PM CDT... IRVINGTON BY 455 PM CDT... LAURENDINE AND I10 AND MCDONALD ROAD BY 500 PM CDT... THEODORE BY 505 PM CDT... MOBILE GREYHOUND PARK AND HOLLINGERS ISLAND BY 510 PM CDT... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. 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. LAT...LON 3059 8823 3057 8809 3036 8821 3039 8827 TIME...MOT...LOC 2143Z 196DEG 20KT 3043 8821 $$ JP
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KMOB 222159
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
458 PM CDT MON OCT 22 2007
ALC097-222215-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0050.000000T0000Z-071022T2215Z/
MOBILE AL-
458 PM CDT MON OCT 22 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR SOUTH
CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY...
AT 458 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR...STORM
SPOTTERS...AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE TRACKING DANGEROUS TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED JUST WEST OF LAURENDINE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF DOWNTOWN MOBILE...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
THEODORE AND MOBILE GREYHOUND PARK AND TILLMANS CORNER BY 505 PM
CDT...
DO NOT USE HIGHWAY OVERPASSES FOR SHELTER ALONG I-10. OVERPASSES DO
NOT PROVIDE PROTECTION FROM TORNADIC WINDS. VEHICLES STOPPED UNDER
BRIDGES BLOCK TRAFFIC AND PREVENT PEOPLE FROM GETTING OUT OF THE
STORMS PATH AND TO SHELTER. IF YOU CANNOT DRIVE AWAY FROM THE
TORNADO...GET OUT OF YOUR VEHICLE AND LIE FLAT IN A DITCH AS A LAST
RESORT.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3048 8822 3059 8822 3059 8818 3058 8817
3058 8811 3057 8810 3047 8819
TIME...MOT...LOC 2158Z 196DEG 20KT 3052 8819
$$
JP000
WWUS54 KMOB 222216
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
516 PM CDT MON OCT 22 2007
ALC097-222221-
/O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0050.000000T0000Z-071022T2215Z/
MOBILE AL-
516 PM CDT MON OCT 22 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY WAS ALLOWED
TO EXPIRE AT 515 PM CDT...
MOBILE RADAR IS ONLY DETECTING BROAD ROTATION...AND SPOTTER ONLY
REPORTING LOW SCUD CLOUDS WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THEREFORE...THE
TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED EXPIRE.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT MONDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3048 8822 3059 8822 3059 8818 3058 8817
3058 8811 3057 8810 3047 8819
TIME...MOT...LOC 2211Z 196DEG 20KT 3059 8817
$$
JPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 40 min |
| Oct 22, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 44 min |
| Oct 22, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 43 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.