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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 10, 2005, 2:26 PM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 10, 2005, 2:26 PM CDT (19:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2005, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 111 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 1:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 256 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -335 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 101931 TORMOB FLC033-113-102030- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0026.050710T1926Z-050710T2030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 226 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE EYE WALL OF HURRICANE DENNIS CONTINUES TO MOVE NORTH NORTHWEST THROUGH THESE COUNTIES. THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE WINDS ARE CONTAINED IN THE EYE WALL. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PENSACOLA PACE...GONZALEZ...HAROLD...CANTONMENT...COTTAGE HILL...MILTON NEAR WHITING FIELD...ALLENTOWN...MOLINO AND CHUMUCKLA. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THE WINDS IN THE EYE WALL ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MAJOR DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE EYE WALL...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3052 8685 3045 8735 3091 8747 3097 8686 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 102000 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 254 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005 FLC033-113-102030- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-050710T2030Z/ ESCAMBIA FL-SANTA ROSA FL- 254 PM CDT SUN JUL 10 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR SANTA ROSA AND ESCAMBIA COUNTIES... AT 250 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW THE EYEWALL FROM HURRICANE DENNIS MOVING NORTH NORTHWEST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND A HIGH RISK OF TORNADOES ARE CONTAINED IN THE EYEWALL. MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PENSACOLA... ENSLEY...GONZALEZ...CHUMUCKLA...COTTAGE HILL...CANTONMENT...MOLINO... BARTH AND BOGIA. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. THE EYE WALL IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NUMEROUS TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH EYE WALL...REMAIN IN SHELTER SHELTER SHOULD BE IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3060 8691 3041 8729 3083 8745 3086 8706 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 1:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 60 min |
| Jul 10, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 61 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.