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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Mobile, AL

April 1, 2005Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2005, 12:34 AM CST for Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 56 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: Apr 1, 2005, 12:34 AM CST (06:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 1, 2005, 1:30 AM CST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

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

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 243 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 010637
SVRMOB
FLC033-091-113-010730-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0083.050401T0634Z-050401T0730Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1234 AM CST FRI APR 1 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
  SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 130 AM CST

* AT 1232 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WOODLAWN BEACH...OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF
  NAVARRE...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NAVARRE AND NAVARRE BEACH BY 1240 AM CST
  WYNNEHAVEN BEACH BY 1245 AM CST
  WRIGHT AND CINCO BAYOU BY 100 AM CST
  EGLIN AFB AND SHALIMAR BY 105 AM CST

ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND 
DAMAGING WINDS WAS OVER THE ADJACENT GULF WATERS OF BALDWIN COUNTY 
MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 40 KNOTS. 

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING OVER COASTAL AREAS ESCAMBIA 
COUNTY FLORIDA DURING THE NEXT HOUR. 

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3046 8710 3029 8702 3034 8648 3088 8646

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 6:22 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	4 hr
Mar 31, 7:30 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	2 hr
Mar 31, 9:27 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	3 hr
Mar 31, 10:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	26 min
Mar 31, 10:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	4 hr
Apr 1, 12:20 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia	3 hr
Apr 1, 1:27 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	18 min
Apr 1, 1:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	18 min
Apr 1, 2:00 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	60 min
Apr 1, 2:25 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	4 hr
Apr 1, 4:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	75 min
Apr 1, 6:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	53 min
Apr 1, 6:30 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	3 hr
Apr 1, 6:30 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	30 min
Apr 1, 7:09 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	66 min
Apr 1, 9:38 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.