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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Mobile, AL

August 3, 1995Okaloosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 1995, 8:27 AM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1995, 8:27 AM CDT (13:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1995, 9:30 AM CDT
In force
63 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 13:28 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 3, 9:15 AM CDTTornado F0Hurlburt Field, FLA tornado briefly touched down on Hurlburt Field Air Force Base in Mary Esther. Several trees were blown down. The tornado was spawned ahead of Hurricane Erin.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 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 1995-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 415 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 1995-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 336 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
415 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 031327
TORMOB
FLC091-031430-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
827 AM CDT THU AUG 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...OKALOOSA COUNTY
 
AT 826 PM CDT...PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR MARY ESTER MOVING WEST ON
HIGHWAY 98.  OTHER TORNADOES ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP ACROSS OKALOOSA
COUNTY AS HURRICANE ERIN'S EYEWALL MOVES INLAND.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.