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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 331, NWS Mobile, AL

October 3, 1995Okaloosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 3, 1995, 1:21 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 3, 1995, 1:21 PM CDT (18:21 UTC)
Expired
Oct 3, 1995, 2:15 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Okaloosa County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-10-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 112 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-10-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 95 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
739 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KTLH 031821 RRA
SVRMOB
FLC091-031915-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
ISSUED BY TALLAHASSEE FL
121 PM CDT TUE OCT 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...OKALOOSA COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS ALONG THE FLORIDA GULF COAST
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
AT 118 PM CDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
CRESTVIEW MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS
NORTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY THROUGH 2PM.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 3, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa28 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.