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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 30, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT (03:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2003, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- 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), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
407 WFUS54 KMOB 010300 TORMOB FLC113-010330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1001 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 954 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR ALLENTOWN...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BERRYDALE BY 1020 PM CDT JAY BY 1025 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM... ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. CALL 1-800-284-9054 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. IF IN A MOBILE HOME OR VEHICLE...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3068 8716 3068 8695 3100 8692 3099 8718
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 12:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:26 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.