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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Mobile, AL

October 13, 2001Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 2:10 PM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 20 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 13, 2001, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 2001, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 13, 2:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Pensacola, FL	Strong thunderstorm winds produced damage in the Car City area of Pensacola, south of Interstate 10. A garage was damaged in the area as was at least one automobile. In addition, a tree was also blown down, damaging a fence.

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
Oct 13, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 241 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: 1483 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 295 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.9

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The text

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

928 
WFUS54 KMOB 131910
TORMOB
FLC033-113-131930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
210 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 210 PM CDT...SEVERAL REPORTS OF WATERSPOUTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED 
BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE.  THE WATERSPOUTS WERE 
LOCATED SOUTH OF GULF BREEZE...AND IF THEY MOVE ONSHORE...COULD 
RESULT IN DAMAGE.  THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM...ASSOCIATED WITH THE 
WATERSPOUTS...WAS MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.  

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BROWNSVILLE...GOULDING BY 215 PM CDT
  BRENT...PENSACOLA REGIONAL AIRPORT BY 220 PM CDT
  FERRY PASS...ENSLEY BY 225 PM CDT
  GONZALEZ...MULAT BY 230 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 3030 8739 3026 8719 3040 8688 3067 8692
          3071 8740

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	30 min
Oct 13, 2:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	28 min
Oct 13, 3:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	22 min
Oct 13, 3:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	27 min
Oct 13, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	45 min
Oct 13, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	52 min
Oct 13, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	50 min

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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.