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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 4, 2009, 8:49 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 41 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 4, 2009, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 4, 2009, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Okaloosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 836 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 229 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMOB 050149
TORMOB
FLC091-050230-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0045.091005T0149Z-091005T0230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
849 PM CDT SUN OCT 4 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 848 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR POSTIL...OR ABOUT
5 MILES NORTHEAST OF DESTIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL SOUTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY AT 900 PM CDT
RURAL EASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY AT 910 PM 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.
TO REPORT ANY TORNADOES...FUNNEL CLOUDS...OR OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER
OBSERVATIONS TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL FREE AT 1 8
7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2.
LAT...LON 3045 8640 3046 8642 3049 8645 3046 8649
3043 8648 3042 8644 3040 8646 3042 8649
3043 8648 3046 8649 3047 8655 3067 8639
3048 8638 3047 8638
TIME...MOT...LOC 0149Z 213DEG 27KT 3048 8645
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KMOB 050201
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
901 PM CDT SUN OCT 4 2009
FLC091-050230-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0045.000000T0000Z-091005T0230Z/
OKALOOSA FL-
901 PM CDT SUN OCT 4 2009
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY...
AT 857 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS NEAR NICEVILLE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF DESTIN...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL SOUTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY AT 910 PM CDT
RURAL EASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY AT 920 PM CDT
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR A ROOM SUCH AS
A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. IF POSSIBLE...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER
PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY
AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
REPORT ANY TORNADOES OR FUNNEL CLOUDS TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE IN MOBILE AT AREA CODE 2 5 1...AND THEN 6 3 3 6 4 4 3.
OR...YOU MAY CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR COUNTY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...AND THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT.
LAT...LON 3045 8640 3046 8642 3049 8645 3046 8649
3043 8648 3042 8644 3040 8646 3042 8649
3043 8648 3046 8649 3047 8655 3067 8639
3048 8638 3047 8638
TIME...MOT...LOC 0200Z 206DEG 16KT 3051 8644
$$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.