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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL

December 28, 2015Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Dec 28, 2015, 8:39 AM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 51 min. 4 reports 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
Dec 28, 2015, 8:39 AM CST (14:39 UTC)
Expired
Dec 28, 2015, 9:30 AM CST
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Radar indicated
Hail
0.75 in

Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:39 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Dec 28, 8:45 AM CSTTSTM WND DMG5 W Pensacola, FLPOWER POLES SNAPPED AND LINES DOWN. TREES DOWN.
Dec 28, 8:45 AM CSTTSTM WND DMGMyrtle Grove, FLTREES AND WOODEN FENCE DOWN ON W FAIRFIELD DR BETWEEN PATRICIA DR AND LILLIAN HWY.
Dec 28, 8:45 AM CSTTSTM WND DMGMyrtle Grove, FLTREES DOWN ON 70TH AVE.
Dec 28, 9:30 AM CSTTSTM WND DMG6 Nne Bellview, FLPUBLIC REPORT VIA PHOTO...LIGHT POLE DOWN ON VEHICLE IN DRUGSTORE PARKING LOT.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Dec 28, 6:41 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 242 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2015-12-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2015-12-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -107 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
713 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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

583 
WFUS54 KMOB 281439
TORMOB
FLC033-113-281530-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0032.151228T1439Z-151228T1530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
839 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA...
  CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA...

* UNTIL 930 AM CST
    
* AT 839 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED OVER WARRINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WEST PENSACOLA AROUND 845 AM CST.
  GOULDING AND BRENT AROUND 850 AM CST.
  FERRY PASS...PENSACOLA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AND ENSLEY AROUND 855
  AM CST.
  PACE...FLORIDATOWN...PEA RIDGE AND MULAT AROUND 905 AM CST.
  BAGDAD AROUND 910 AM CST.
  MILTON AND POINT BAKER AROUND 915 AM CST.
  WHITING FIELD AND ROEVILLE AROUND 920 AM CST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3033 8734 3079 8720 3071 8694 3049 8710
      3052 8710 3055 8713 3054 8713 3055 8715
      3058 8715 3058 8718 3055 8719 3055 8720
      3049 8715 3043 8717 3038 8726 3037 8732
      3037 8727 3034 8727
TIME...MOT...LOC 1439Z 203DEG 36KT 3035 8729 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$
1 follow-up statement
558 
WWUS54 KMOB 281455
SVSMOB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
855 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015

FLC033-113-281530-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-151228T1530Z/
ESCAMBIA FL-SANTA ROSA FL-
855 AM CST MON DEC 28 2015

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 930 AM CST FOR CENTRAL
ESCAMBIA AND WEST CENTRAL SANTA ROSA COUNTIES...
    
AT 855 AM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER FERRY PASS...MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE 
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE DAMAGE IS 
         LIKELY. 

THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MULAT AROUND 900 AM CST.
  PACE...FLORIDATOWN AND PEA RIDGE AROUND 905 AM CST.
  MILTON AROUND 910 AM CST.
  POINT BAKER AROUND 915 AM CST.
  WHITING FIELD AROUND 920 AM CST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3045 8716 3049 8729 3079 8720 3072 8698
      3052 8710 3055 8713 3054 8713 3055 8715
      3058 8715 3058 8718 3055 8719 3055 8720
      3049 8715
TIME...MOT...LOC 1455Z 199DEG 35KT 3051 8723 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 28, 2:38 AM CSTWind AdvisoryMOBEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa9 hr
Dec 28, 3:16 AM CSTHigh Surf AdvisoryMOBEscambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa15 hr
Dec 28, 7:16 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa59 min
Dec 28, 8:16 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa2 min
Dec 28, 8:19 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa41 min
Dec 28, 9:06 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBEscambia39 min
Dec 28, 9:20 AM CSTRiver Flood WarningMOBOkaloosa6 days
Dec 28, 9:30 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa45 min
Dec 28, 9:43 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa30 min
Dec 28, 9:52 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMOBEscambia53 min
Dec 28, 10:27 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa33 min
Dec 28, 10:48 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMOBEscambia, Santa Rosa57 min
Dec 28, 10:54 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBSanta Rosa15 min
Dec 28, 11:24 AM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMOBEscambia36 min
Dec 28, 12:02 PM CSTSpecial Weather StatementMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa88 min
Dec 28, 12:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa, Santa Rosa44 min
Dec 28, 1:12 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBOkaloosa48 min
Dec 28, 1:59 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryMOBOkaloosa3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.