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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 5, 2008, 7:51 AM CDT for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 39 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 5, 2008, 7:51 AM CDT (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2008, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:52 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMOB 051251
TORMOB
FLC033-113-051330-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0048.080405T1251Z-080405T1330Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
751 AM CDT SAT APR 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
WEST CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 830 AM CDT
* AT 746 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR BELLVIEW...
OR ABOUT 8 MILES WEST OF PENSACOLA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
FERRY PASS BY 800 AM CDT...
PACE BY 810 AM CDT...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR A ROOM SUCH AS
A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. IF POSSIBLE...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER
PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY
AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL OR DAMAGING
STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
IF YOU ARE IN MOBILE HOME...EVACUATE IT AND GET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF A NEARBY STURDY BUILDING OR IN AN UNDERGROUND STORM SHELTER. IF NO
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER IS AVAILABLE AND A TORNADO IS FAST APPROACHING...
SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW DEPRESSION AND COVER YOUR
HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3044 8738 3046 8737 3046 8739 3048 8742
3067 8717 3054 8707 3041 8734
TIME...MOT...LOC 1251Z 232DEG 31KT 3049 8729
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 24 min |
| Apr 5, 5:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 3 hr |
| Apr 5, 8:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:43 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | 4 hr | |
| Apr 5, 10:42 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa | 11 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 11 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:14 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 22 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 9 hr |
| Apr 5, 1:11 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 37 hr |
| Apr 5, 6:12 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 4 days |
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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.