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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 24, 2000, 1:33 PM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 42 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
- Nov 24, 2000, 1:33 PM CST (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2000, 2:15 PM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 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
- 265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 552 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 241933 TORMOB FLC033-113-242015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 133 PM CST FRI NOV 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 215 PM CST * AT 123 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA NAVAL BASE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF PENSACOLA PASS...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PENSACOLA NAVAL BASE...PENSACOLA BEACH BY 140 PM CST GULF BREEZE BY 145 PM CST PENSACOLA...EAST PENSACOLA HEIGHTS BY 150 PM CST PENSACOLA REGIONAL AIRPORT BY 200 PM CST AVALON BEACH...MULAT BY 210 PM CST IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON j3022 8733 3016 8720 3050 8706 3061 8715
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 1:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.