Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 1997, 10:38 AM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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
- Oct 24, 1997, 10:38 AM CDT (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1997, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Santa Rosa County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 10:55 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Milton, FL | Two pine trees were uprooted just east of Milton. Part of a fence was blown down and a couple of windows were blown out of a motor home. |
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.
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 24, 9:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 1564 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 550 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.0
- Supercell composite
- 18.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 10:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 60 min |
| Oct 24, 10:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 2 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.