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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 2012, 1:07 PM CST for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 38 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
- Jan 26, 2012, 1:07 PM CST (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2012, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Okaloosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.
536
WUUS54 KMOB 261907
SVRMOB
FLC091-261945-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0008.120126T1907Z-120126T1945Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
107 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 145 PM CST
* AT 104 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 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF MILTON TO 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF EGLIN
AFB TO 9 MILES WEST OF EGLIN AFB TO 7 MILES WEST OF MARY ESTHER...
AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.
THIS IS AN EXTENSION TO THE PREVIOUS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
FURTHER NORTHWARD.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LAUREL HILL... CRESTVIEW... BAKER...
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 10 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 43 AND 67.
&&
LAT...LON 3067 8679 3100 8679 3099 8639 3070 8638
TIME...MOT...LOC 1907Z 222DEG 37KT 3075 8686 3072 8675
3060 8670 3047 8674
$$1 follow-up statement
129
WWUS54 KMOB 261940
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
140 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012
FLC091-261945-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0008.000000T0000Z-120126T1945Z/
OKALOOSA FL-
140 PM CST THU JAN 26 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 145 PM CST
FOR NORTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY...
AT 137 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRESTVIEW TO 11 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF FLORALA TO CRESTVIEW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
DEERLAND AND SVEA
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST THURSDAY AFTERNOON
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.
&&
LAT...LON 3070 8653 3083 8652 3099 8668 3100 8657
3099 8639 3076 8638 3074 8639 3074 8638
3071 8638 3070 8639
TIME...MOT...LOC 1940Z 222DEG 37KT 3101 8659 3098 8648
3085 8643 3072 8647
$$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, 1:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 14 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.