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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jul 5, 2013, 1:59 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 31 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
- Jul 5, 2013, 1:59 PM CDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2013, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Okaloosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
300 WFUS54 KMOB 051859 TORMOB FLC091-051930- /O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0023.130705T1859Z-130705T1930Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 159 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA... * UNTIL 230 PM CDT * AT 154 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NICEVILLE...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHALIMAR...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. AT 153 PM THE PUBLIC REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER NORTHERN CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NICEVILLE... LAT...LON 3049 8643 3048 8646 3053 8652 3055 8642 TIME...MOT...LOC 1859Z 165DEG 13KT 3051 8646 $$
1 follow-up statement
348 WWUS54 KMOB 051913 SVSMOB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 213 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 2013 FLC091-051921- /O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-130705T1930Z/ OKALOOSA FL- 213 PM CDT FRI JUL 5 2013 ...THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR SOUTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY... AT 211 PM CDT...THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN OKALOOSA COUNTY HAS WEAKENED TO BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...THUS THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. PUBLIC REPORTS A TORNADO MOVED ONSHORE OFF CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY JUST SOUTHEAST OF NICEVILLE ALONG SUNSET BEACH CIRCLE. PUBLIC REPORTS INDICATE THE TORNADO LIFTED AND DISSIPATED AS IT MOVED NORTHWEST TOWARDS NICEVILLE. LAT...LON 3049 8643 3048 8646 3053 8652 3055 8642 TIME...MOT...LOC 1911Z 165DEG 13KT 3055 8647 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 9:17 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 118 min |
| Jul 5, 11:08 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 12 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:11 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 11:22 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Santa Rosa | 113 min |
| Jul 5, 11:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 12 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 12:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 1:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 1:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:16 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 12 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Santa Rosa | 6 hr |
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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.