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Tornado Warning 43, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2007, 9:11 AM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 34 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
- Oct 18, 2007, 9:11 AM CDT (14:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2007, 9:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 2019 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS54 KMOB 181412 TORMOB FLC033-113-181445- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0043.071018T1411Z-071018T1445Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 911 AM CDT THU OCT 18 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA... CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA... * UNTIL 945 AM CDT * AT 910 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MYRTLE GROVE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES WEST OF PENSACOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BRENT BY 920 AM CDT... PENSACOLA REGIONAL A/P BY 925 AM CDT... FERRY PASS BY 930 AM CDT... PACE BY 940 AM CDT... 6 MILES WEST OF BAGDAD BY 945 AM CDT... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. 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. 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. LAT...LON 3043 8734 3072 8716 3056 8697 3038 8729 TIME...MOT...LOC 1411Z 223DEG 20KT 3044 8728 $$ JFP/DM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 1:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Oct 18, 3:23 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 97 min | |
| Oct 18, 6:23 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Oct 18, 7:35 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 25 min | |
| Oct 18, 8:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 51 min |
| Oct 18, 8:58 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 min | |
| Oct 18, 9:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 42 min |
| Oct 18, 9:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 39 min |
| Oct 18, 10:10 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 35 min |
| Oct 18, 10:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 36 min |
| Oct 18, 10:45 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 30 min | |
| Oct 18, 11:01 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 89 min | |
| Oct 18, 11:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 40 min |
| Oct 18, 11:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 45 min |
| Oct 18, 12:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 94 min | |
| Oct 18, 1:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 88 min | |
| Oct 18, 3:19 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 86 min | |
| Oct 18, 3:52 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 83 min | |
| Oct 18, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 46 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.