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Tornado Warning 35, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 2005, 9:27 PM CDT for Okaloosa 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 2005, 9:27 PM CDT (02:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2005, 9:39 PM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Okaloosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 290227 TORMOB FLC091-290300- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0035.050829T0227Z-050829T0300Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 927 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 1000 PM CDT * AT 927 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER DESTIN... AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... RURAL SOUTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY AT 940 PM CDT RURAL WESTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY AT 950 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 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3039 8650 3047 8645 3063 8674 3054 8678 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 290239 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 938 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 FLC091-290248- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0035.000000T0000Z-050829T0300Z/ OKALOOSA FL- 938 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR OKALOOSA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CDT MONDAY MORNING. LAT...LON 3039 8650 3047 8645 3063 8674 3054 8678 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 7:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 8:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 56 min |
| Aug 29, 8:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 60 min |
| Aug 29, 11:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 12:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 36 min |
| Aug 29, 2:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
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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.