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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 4:15 PM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 45 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, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 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, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Milton, FL | An F1 tornado occurred near Byron Street just to the northwest of Milton High School. Most of the damage produced by the tornado was to trees and to the roofs of homes, with one of the homes having it's roof completely torn off. The most significant damage w |
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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
237 WFUS54 KMOB 132115 TORMOB FLC033-113-132200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 415 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 500 PM CDT * AT 413 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORIOLE BEACH...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... AVALON BEACH...MULAT BY 430 PM CDT BAGDAD BY 435 PM CDT MILTON BY 440 PM CDT HAROLD BY 445 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 8720 3026 8699 3092 8680 3094 8710
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, 2:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 20 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, 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.