Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 57, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 23, 2007, 2:14 AM CDT for Butler 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
- Oct 23, 2007, 2:14 AM CDT (07:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2007, 2:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Butler 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 12:43 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMOB 230715
TORMOB
ALC013-230745-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0057.071023T0714Z-071023T0745Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
214 AM CDT TUE OCT 23 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 245 AM CDT
* AT 213 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
GREENVILLE...OR ABOUT 23 MILES WEST OF LUVERNE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY AT 230 AM CDT
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
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 800 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3197 8660 3197 8645 3188 8649 3179 8659
3179 8665 3182 8669
TIME...MOT...LOC 0714Z 219DEG 32KT 3185 8662
$$2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS54 KMOB 230726
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
225 AM CDT TUE OCT 23 2007
ALC013-230745-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0057.000000T0000Z-071023T0745Z/
BUTLER AL-
225 AM CDT TUE OCT 23 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 245 AM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY...
AT 220 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST BUTLER
COUNTY...OR ABOUT 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF LUVERNE...OR 5 MILES SOUTH
OF FORT DEPOSIT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3197 8645 3193 8646 3192 8647 3190 8648
3187 8654 3188 8663 3197 8660
TIME...MOT...LOC 0725Z 222DEG 32KT 3193 8654
$$000
WWUS54 KMOB 230737
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
236 AM CDT TUE OCT 23 2007
ALC013-230746-
/O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0057.000000T0000Z-071023T0745Z/
BUTLER AL-
236 AM CDT TUE OCT 23 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...
AT 236 AM CDT...THE POTENTIAL TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM HAS
MOVED NORTHEAST OF BUTLER COUNTY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM CDT TUESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3197 8645 3193 8646 3192 8647 3190 8648
3187 8654 3188 8663 3197 8660
TIME...MOT...LOC 0736Z 222DEG 32KT 3200 8646
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 29 min |
| Oct 22, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington | 43 min |
| Oct 22, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 33 min |
| Oct 22, 9:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 6 hr |
| Oct 22, 9:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 6 hr |
| Oct 22, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 18 min |
| Oct 23, 12:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile, Monroe, Wilcox | 6 hr |
| Oct 23, 1:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Butler | 39 min |
| Oct 23, 6:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 44 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.