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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 2005, 3:27 PM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 33 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
- Sep 26, 2005, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2005, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 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), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 1152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 262027 TORMOB FLC033-113-262100- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0059.050926T2027Z-050926T2100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 327 PM CDT MON SEP 26 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 400 PM CDT * AT 323 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEARR PACE...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MULAT BY 345 PM CDT AVALON BEACH BY 355 PM CDT FERRY PASS AND PENSACOLA REGIONAL AIRPORT BY 400 PM CDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3071 8710 3063 8729 3034 8717 3043 8693 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 262040 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 340 PM CDT MON SEP 26 2005 FLC033-262050- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0059.000000T0000Z-050926T2100Z/ ESCAMBIA FL- 340 PM CDT MON SEP 26 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR ESCAMBIA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... LAT...LON 3067 8714 3061 8721 3050 8710 3055 8704 $$ FLC113-262100- /O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0059.000000T0000Z-050926T2100Z/ SANTA ROSA FL- 340 PM CDT MON SEP 26 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY... AT 336 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MULAT...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTH OF PENSACOLA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... AVALON BEACH BY 355 PM CDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 3067 8714 3061 8721 3050 8710 3055 8704 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 9:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 24 min |
| Sep 26, 9:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 3 hr |
| Sep 26, 1:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 26 min |
| Sep 26, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 29 min |
| Sep 26, 4:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 29 min |
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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.