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Tornado Warning 61, NWS Mobile, AL

November 15, 2006Okaloosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2006, 1:28 PM CST for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 62 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: Nov 15, 2006, 1:28 PM CST (19:28 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2006, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 62 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 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 15, 9:54 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 222 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -188 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 657 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 151928
TORMOB
FLC091-152030-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0061.061115T1928Z-061115T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
128 PM CST WED NOV 15 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...

  OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 230 PM CST

* AT 125 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTH OF
  HOLT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CRESTVIEW BY 140 PM CST
  DEERLAND AND CRESTVIEW AIRPORT BY 145 PM CST
  DORCAS BY 150 PM CST
  SVEA BY 205 PM CST

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 900 PM CST WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.

LAT...LON 3063 8678 3049 8662 3064 8639 3099 8639

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 8:58 PM CST	Coastal Flood Warning	MOB		24 hr
Nov 15, 2:42 AM CST	Wind Advisory	MOB		10 hr
Nov 15, 6:49 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		116 min
Nov 15, 7:55 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		65 min
Nov 15, 9:30 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		90 min
Nov 15, 12:06 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	24 min
Nov 15, 12:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	25 min
Nov 15, 1:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	54 min
Nov 15, 2:03 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	117 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.