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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 2012, 1:46 PM CST for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 14 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 26, 2012, 1:46 PM CST (19:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2012, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Okaloosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 1:59 PM CST | TSTM WND GST 58 | Destin, FL |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 9:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 53 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 757 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
102
WUUS54 KMOB 261946
SVRMOB
FLC091-262000-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0010.120126T1946Z-120126T2000Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
146 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 200 PM CST
* AT 142 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FLORALA TO DESTIN...AND MOVING EAST AT 45
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHALIMAR... LAKE LORRAINE... VALPARAISO...
NICEVILLE... LAUREL HILL... EGLIN AFB...
DESTIN... CRESTVIEW...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 58 AND 67.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
&&
LAT...LON 3042 8650 3041 8645 3044 8642 3048 8646
3041 8660 3042 8661 3099 8650 3099 8639
3045 8639 3042 8644 3040 8639 3037 8640
3037 8650
TIME...MOT...LOC 1946Z 270DEG 37KT 3096 8635 3039 8643
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 9:49 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 116 min |
| Jan 26, 12:05 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 4 hr |
| Jan 26, 12:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 50 min |
| Jan 26, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 38 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.