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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 27, 1998, 8:26 PM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 49 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
- Sep 27, 1998, 8:26 PM CDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1998, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 8:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Milton, FL | High winds damaged a building on the Naval Air Station at Whiting Field in Milton. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1088 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 280126 RRA TORMOB FLC033-113-280215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 826 PM CDT SUN SEP 27 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA * UNTIL 915 PM CDT * AT 825 PM CDT... A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF MILTON OR 2 MILES EAST OF PACE... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR... MOVING WEST 35 MPH. * TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR- PACE BY 829 PM CDT GONZALEZ BY 840 PM CDT ENSLEY BY 840 PM CDT PINE FORREST BY 845 PM CDT 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 office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 9:43 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 1:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 7 hr |
| Sep 28, 1:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Sep 28, 3:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 3 hr |
| Sep 28, 5:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 69 min |
| Sep 28, 6:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Sep 28, 11:54 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 8 hr |
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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.