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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 2002, 4:07 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 2002, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2002, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Shalimar, FL | A weak tornado moved off the bay and damaged a home near Shalimar. The storm also blew down trees and power lines near the home. Most of the damage to the home was to the roof and a couple of windows. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 561 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 12:37 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Sep 25, 3:23 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Sep 25, 3:53 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 9 hr |
| Sep 25, 5:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 7 hr |
| Sep 25, 5:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 7 hr |
| Sep 25, 2:24 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 66 min | |
| Sep 25, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | 33 min | |
| Sep 25, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 14 hr |
| Sep 25, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 3:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 3:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 3 hr |
| Sep 25, 4:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 4 hr |
| Sep 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 14 hr |
| Sep 25, 5:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 117 min |
| Sep 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 14 hr |
| Sep 25, 6:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 2 hr |
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.