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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL

October 4, 1995Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 1995, 10:40 AM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 4, 1995, 10:40 AM CDT (15:40 UTC)
Expired
Oct 4, 1995, 11:45 AM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:42 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-10-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1995-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
540 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 041542
TORMOB
FLC113-041645-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1040 AM CDT WED OCT 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
 
   ...SANTA ROSA COUNTY
 
 
 
 
AT 1039 AM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO PRODUCING
THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS MOVING ONSHORE NEAR NAVARRE BEACH. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHWEST AT 25 MPH AND WILL CROSS PENSACOLA BAY...AND THEN MOVE
TOWARDS BAGDAD AND MILTON DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELT\ER 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 4, 9:52 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa53 min
Oct 4, 11:00 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBEscambia60 min
Oct 4, 11:37 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa68 min
Oct 4, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa42 min
Oct 4, 6:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa67 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.