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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Mobile, AL

August 28, 2001Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 2001, 5:48 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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
Aug 28, 2001, 5:48 PM CDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Santa Rosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 68 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1387 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 2001-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 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
1387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
789 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 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.

646 
WFUS54 KMOB 282249
TORMOB
FLC113-282315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
548 PM CDT TUE AUG 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 547 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
  WATERSPOUT MOVING TOWARD GULF BREEZE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.      
  THIS WATERSPOUT WILL BECOME A TORNADO AS IT MOVES ONSHORE AROUND   
  GULF BREEZE.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  GULF BREEZE 552 PM
  ORIOLE BEACH BY 615 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 3037 8723 3034 8722 3036 8710 3042 8713

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 12:42 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa33 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Florida, 2001Every tornado warning in 2001Tornadoes in 2001

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.