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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 13, 2001, 5:23 PM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 52 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, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 13, 2001, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 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, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Pensacola, FL | An F0 tornado touched down in the Coral Creek Subdivision, along Coral Reef Road. Twenty five homes suffered some degree of roof damage, with three of the homes sustaining major roof damage. Many homes had some window damage, mainly resulting from flying d |
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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 233 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.
323
WFUS54 KMOB 132224
TORMOB
FLC033-113-132315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
523 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 615 PM CDT
* AT 517 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 1 MILE SOUTHWEST OF
PENSACOLA PASS...MOVING NORTH AT 45 MPH.
* THE TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR...
WEST PENSACOLA...BROWNSVILLE BY 530 PM CDT
BRENT...PENSACOLA REGIONAL AIRPORT BY 535 PM CDT
ENSLEY...FERRY PASS BY 540 PM CDT
PACE BY 545 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 3028 8744 3023 8724 3073 8705 3077 8725
3044 8734The 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, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 45 min |
| Oct 13, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.