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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Aug 29, 2005, 7:03 AM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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 29, 2005, 7:03 AM CDT (12:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2005, 7:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 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 Mobile radar (KMOB), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:06 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 29, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 606 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 692 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 291203 TORMOB FLC033-113-291230- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0039.050829T1203Z-050829T1230Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 703 AM CDT MON AUG 29 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 730 AM CDT * AT 659 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CHUMUCKLA...AND MOVING NORTHWEST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CENTURY BY 710 AM 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 NOON CDT MONDAY FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3057 8717 3073 8704 3099 8722 3094 8753 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 291214 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 714 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 FLC033-113-291230- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0039.000000T0000Z-050829T1230Z/ ESCAMBIA FL-SANTA ROSA FL- 714 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 730 AM CDT FOR NORTHWESTERN SANTA ROSA AND NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTIES... AT 713 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR OAK GROVE...OR ABOUT 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BREWTON...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 55 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT MONDAY FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. LAT...LON 3057 8717 3073 8704 3099 8722 3094 8753 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 12 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 |
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.