Alert archive / Florida / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 11, 2005, 2:08 PM CDT for Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 26 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 11, 2005, 2:08 PM CDT (19:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2005, 2:34 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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 11, 4:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 111908 TORMOB FLC113-112000- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0015.050611T1908Z-050611T2000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 208 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 300 PM CDT * AT 205 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF NAVARRE...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... NAVARRE BY 220 PM CDT HOLLEY BY 230 PM CDT IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER. MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. COVER YOUR BODY WITH BLANKETS OR PILLOWS. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3032 8690 3033 8678 3059 8680 3059 8696 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 111934 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 231 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 FLC113-111941- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050611T2000Z/ SANTA ROSA FL- 231 PM CDT SAT JUN 11 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS MOVED ASHORE...AND IS NO LONGER SHOWING SIGNS OF ROTATION. THE NAVARRE BEACH FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED A 60 MPH WIND GUST WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3032 8690 3033 8678 3059 8680 3059 8696 $$
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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.