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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 23, 2009, 8:49 AM 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 23, 2009, 8:49 AM CDT (13:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 23, 2009, 9:30 AM 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), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:49 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
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 1245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS54 KMOB 231349
TORMOB
FLC091-231430-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0047.091023T1349Z-091023T1430Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
849 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CRESTVIEW...
* UNTIL 930 AM CDT
* AT 848 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CRESTVIEW...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
AUBURN BY 905 AM CDT...
CAMPTON BY 915 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.
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 3099 8658 3098 8639 3089 8639 3071 8654
3076 8666
TIME...MOT...LOC 1349Z 217DEG 19KT 3076 8659
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS54 KMOB 231406
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
906 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009
FLC091-231430-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0047.000000T0000Z-091023T1430Z/
OKALOOSA FL-
906 AM CDT FRI OCT 23 2009
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY...
AT 904 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS NEAR CAMPTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF CRESTVIEW...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
LAUREL HILL AND SVEA BY 920 AM CDT...
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR A ROOM SUCH AS
A CLOSET OR BATHROOM. IF POSSIBLE...GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER
PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY
AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
TO REPORT ANY TORNADOES...FUNNEL CLOUDS...OR OTHER HAZARDOUS WEATHER
OBSERVATIONS TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL FREE AT 1
8 7 7 6 3 3 6 7 7 2.
LAT...LON 3085 8646 3088 8659 3099 8658 3098 8639
3089 8639
TIME...MOT...LOC 1405Z 212DEG 26KT 3088 8651
$$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.