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Tornado Warning 38, NWS Mobile, AL

September 28, 1998Okaloosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 28, 1998, 5:06 AM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 69 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 28, 1998, 5:06 AM CDT (10:06 UTC)
Expired: Sep 28, 1998, 6:15 AM CDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Okaloosa County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 28, 5:15 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Crestview, FL	Trees and power lines were blown down near Crestview.

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 28, 1:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	12 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 5.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 281006 RRA
TORMOB
FLC091-281115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
506 AM CDT MON SEP 28 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 AM CDT

* AT 502 AM CDT... A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  CRESTVIEW OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF DEERLAND... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER
  RADAR... MOVING NORTH 50 MPH.

* TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR-
  DEERLAND BY 515 AM CDT
  CRESTVIEW BY 515 AM CDT
  AUBURN BY 520 AM CDT
  CAMPTON BY 525 AM CDT
  LAUREL HILL BY 530 AM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWESrT 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, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	49 min
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, 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.