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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Mobile, AL

September 26, 2002Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 2002, 8:00 AM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 24 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 26, 2002, 8:00 AM CDT (13:00 UTC)
Expired
Oct 20, 2002, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
24 days
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 25, 11:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
Sep 26, 3:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2002-09-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2002-09-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 1003 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
474 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
1003 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1252 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

703 
WFUS54 KMOB 261300
TORMOB
FLC113-261330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
800 AM CDT THU SEP 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 830 AM CDT

* AT 759 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF BAGDAD...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BAGDAD...MILTON BY 805 AM CDT
  MILTON NEAR WHITING FIELD BY 815 AM CDT
  ALLENTOWN BY 825 AM 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 3045 8712 3049 8691 3095 8701 3090 8727

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 25, 10:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa3 hr
Sep 25, 10:12 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa3 hr
Sep 26, 8:48 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa24 days
Sep 26, 8:48 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa24 days
Sep 26, 9:07 AM CDTTornado WarningMOBOkaloosa33 days

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.