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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Mobile, AL

September 26, 1998Okaloosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 1998, 5:27 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 26, 1998, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
Expired
Sep 26, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Okaloosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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 1998-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 116 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 1998-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 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
116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 262231 COR
TORMOB
FLC091-262315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION FOR MOVEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
527 PM CDT SAT SEP 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 524 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF CRESTVIEW...
  AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING WEST 30 MPH.

* THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO WILL BE MAINLY OVER RURAL AREAS.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR
CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

THE CRESTVIEW POLICE DEPARTMENT IN CRESTVIEW REPORTED 2 TORNADOES ON
THE GROUND JUST SOUTH OF I-10.  DOPPLER RADARS SHOW BROAD CIRCULATION
IN THIS AREA.

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.