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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL

February 22, 2002Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2002, 9:18 AM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 12 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 22, 2002, 9:18 AM CST (15:18 UTC)
Expired
Feb 22, 2002, 9:30 AM CST
In force
12 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 259 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-02-22Temperature 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, Tallahassee Rgnl, FL at 12:00Z on 2002-02-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
2271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 221518
TORMOB
FLC033-091-113-221530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING DRILL...THIS IS A DRILL MESSAGE...REPEAT ONLY A DRILL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
915 AM CST FRI FEB 22 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 930 AM CST

* AT 915 AM CST...NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING OVER THE WESTERN 
  FLORIDA PANHANDLE. THIS IS A DRILL. AT THIS TIME PLEASE PRACTICE
  YOUR TORNADO SAFETY PROCEDURES. IF THIS WERE AN ACTUAL TORNADO 
  WARNING...YOU SHOULD GO TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST LEVEL
  OF YOUR BUILDING. WEAK STRUCTURES OR VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED
  FOR SAFE SHELTER. 

  THIS IS A TORNADO DRILL...REPEAT ONLY A DRILL. NO SEVERE WEATHER   
  IS OCCURRING OVER THE AREA.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 22, 9:15 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa15 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.