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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 324, NWS Mobile, AL

November 8, 2000Okaloosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 8, 2000, 2:15 PM CST for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Nov 8, 2000, 2:15 PM CST (20:15 UTC)
Expired
Nov 8, 2000, 2:45 PM CST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Okaloosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-11-08Temperature 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2000-11-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 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 
WUUS54 KMOB 082022 COR
SVRMOB
FLC091-082045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
215 PM CST WED NOV 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 245 PM CST

* AT 215 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE SANTA ROSA COUNTY LINE 10 MILES    
  NORTHEAST OF NAVARRE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH INTO OKALOOSA    
  COUNTY.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN OVER RURAL AREAS OF...WESTERN      
  OKALOOSA AND EASTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTIES.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE 
WARNING.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER
HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3053 8698 3048 8677 3082 8663 3089 8688

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 8, 11:40 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa35 min
Nov 8, 2:15 PM CSTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa30 min
Nov 8, 4:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa65 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.