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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 1, 2007, 10:46 AM CST for Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2007, 10:46 AM CST (16:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2007, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 11:37 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 10 S Munson, FL | POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR HWY 191 NEAR SPRING HILL. TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:28 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 12 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:47 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 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 011645 TORMOB FLC091-113-011730- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0010.070301T1646Z-070301T1730Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1046 AM CST THU MAR 1 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CRESTVIEW... EAST CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA... * UNTIL 1130 AM CST * AT 1041 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF GALLIVER...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF CRESTVIEW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BAKER AND MILLIGAN BY 1055 AM CST... CANNON TOWN AND CRESTVIEW BY 1100 AM CST... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRESTVIEW AIRPORT BY 1105 AM CST... PEADEN BY 1110 AM CST... 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF DORCAS BY 1115 AM CST... THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL 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 800 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA. LAT...LON 3075 8692 3060 8679 3079 8639 3097 8650 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 4:37 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Walton | 10 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:39 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 36 min | |
| Mar 1, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 9:15 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 30 min | |
| Mar 1, 9:57 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 24 min |
| Mar 1, 10:03 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 27 min | |
| Mar 1, 10:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 45 min |
| Mar 1, 11:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 12:01 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 34 min |
| Mar 1, 1:55 PM CST | Wind Advisory | MOB | 4 hr | |
| Mar 1, 2:35 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | MOB | Walton | 28 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:41 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 49 min | |
| Mar 1, 5:32 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.