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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Mobile, AL

October 24, 2010Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2010, 9:16 PM CDT for Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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 24, 2010, 9:16 PM CDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2010, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 219 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1851 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 619 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 6.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

084 
WFUS54 KMOB 250216
TORMOB
ALC003-FLC033-250300-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0023.101025T0216Z-101025T0300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
916 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
  EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 913 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES EAST OF
  ROBERTSDALE...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF SUMMERDALE...MOVING NORTH AT
  30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  OAK GROVE AROUND 1000 PM CDT...

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 IN ALABAMA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 53 AND
64.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3098 8756 3097 8732 3052 8746 3056 8764
TIME...MOT...LOC 0216Z 192DEG 24KT 3059 8755

$$

2 follow-up statements

304 
WWUS54 KMOB 250240
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
940 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010

ALC003-250249-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-101025T0300Z/
BALDWIN AL-
940 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF BALDWIN COUNTY. BALDWIN COUNTY EMA 
REPORTS SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO A HOME NEAR ELSANOR. 

LAT...LON 3070 8743 3070 8745 3074 8752 3075 8753
      3079 8754 3083 8759 3098 8756 3097 8732
      3068 8741
TIME...MOT...LOC 0239Z 192DEG 25KT 3074 8748

$$

FLC033-250300-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-101025T0300Z/
ESCAMBIA FL-
940 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR NORTH
CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY...

AT 936 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS NEAR TENILE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF MOLINO...MOVING 
NORTH AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO A HOME 
NEAR ELSANOR IN BALDWIN COUNTY. 

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MCKINNON...BAY SPRINGS AND ENON AROUND 945 PM CDT...
  OAK GROVE...WALNUT HILL...BRATT AND BYRNEVILLE AROUND 1000 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.

LAT...LON 3070 8743 3070 8745 3074 8752 3075 8753
      3079 8754 3083 8759 3098 8756 3097 8732
      3068 8741
TIME...MOT...LOC 0239Z 192DEG 25KT 3074 8748

$$

807 
WWUS54 KMOB 250257
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
957 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010

FLC033-250308-
/O.EXP.KMOB.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-101025T0300Z/
ESCAMBIA FL-
957 PM CDT SUN OCT 24 2010

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 1000 PM CDT...

LAT...LON 3070 8743 3070 8745 3074 8752 3075 8753
      3079 8754 3083 8759 3098 8756 3097 8732
      3068 8741
TIME...MOT...LOC 0258Z 192DEG 25KT 3087 8745

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 25, 6:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	36 min
Oct 25, 7:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Escambia	59 min
Oct 24, 7:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	60 min
Oct 24, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		64 min
Oct 24, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Wilcox	45 min
Oct 24, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe, Wilcox	43 min
Oct 24, 10:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	39 min
Oct 24, 11:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington, Escambia	45 min
Oct 24, 11:39 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		51 min
Oct 24, 11:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	38 min
Oct 25, 3:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	41 min
Oct 25, 4:42 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Clarke, Washington	23 min
Oct 25, 5:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	60 min
Oct 25, 5:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	40 min
Oct 25, 5:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	25 min
Oct 25, 5:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	46 min
Oct 25, 6:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	27 min
Oct 25, 6:26 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe	2 hr
Oct 25, 6:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Baldwin	32 min
Oct 25, 7:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe	54 min
Oct 25, 8:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia	2 min
Oct 25, 8:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington, Crenshaw	42 min
Oct 25, 1:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Escambia	39 min

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.