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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 22, 2006, 12:01 AM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 14 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
- Apr 22, 2006, 12:01 AM CDT (05:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 22, 2006, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Okaloosa County, FL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 10:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 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
- 1232 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1276 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 220501 TORMOB FLC091-220515- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0021.060422T0501Z-060422T0515Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1201 AM CDT SAT APR 22 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1157 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PEADEN...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LAUREL HILL AND 6 MILES NORTH OF DORCAS BY 1210 AM CDT SVEA BY 1215 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. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3094 8664 3076 8660 3079 8639 3099 8639 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS54 KMOB 220518 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1218 AM CDT SAT APR 22 2006 FLC091-220528- /O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-060422T0515Z/ OKALOOSA FL- 1218 AM CDT SAT APR 22 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY EXPIRED AT 1215 AM CDT... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA. LAT...LON 3094 8664 3076 8660 3079 8639 3099 8639 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 21, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 39 min |
| Apr 21, 10:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 29 min |
| Apr 21, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 40 min |
| Apr 22, 4:45 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Apr 22, 2:19 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | 15 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.