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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 23, 2016, 7:23 PM CST for Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 67 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
- Feb 23, 2016, 7:23 PM CST (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2016, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
710
WUUS54 KMOB 240123
SVRMOB
FLC091-113-240230-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0055.160224T0123Z-160224T0230Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
723 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA...
OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 830 PM CST
* AT 722 PM CST...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM MIDWAY TO 19 MILES SOUTH OF DESTIN...MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 55 MPH.
HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT CONSIDERABLE
TREE DAMAGE. WIND DAMAGE IS ALSO LIKELY TO MOBILE HOMES...
ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CRESTVIEW...FORT WALTON BEACH...NICEVILLE...DESTIN...VALPARAISO...MARY
ESTHER...WRIGHT...OCEAN CITY...EGLIN AFB...LAKE LORRAINE...BAKER...
MIDWAY...SHALIMAR...LAUREL HILL...CINCO BAYOU...NAVARRE...POSTIL...
HOLLEY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST FOR NORTHWESTERN
FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 3039 8676 3037 8692 3041 8666 3041 8672
3039 8710 3040 8710 3044 8709 3040 8707
3045 8694 3045 8691 3046 8695 3047 8697
3050 8701 3099 8657 3099 8639 3045 8639
3044 8642 3038 8640 3040 8667
TIME...MOT...LOC 0122Z 223DEG 49KT 3041 8702 3012 8654
TORNADO...POSSIBLE
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...70MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 62 min |
| Feb 23, 7:28 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Escambia | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 25 min |
| Feb 23, 8:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 33 min |
| Feb 23, 8:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 2 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 29 min |
| Feb 23, 8:39 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 36 min |
| Feb 23, 8:43 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 32 min |
| Feb 23, 9:09 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 21 min |
| Feb 23, 9:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 46 min |
| Feb 23, 9:32 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 3 hr |
| Feb 23, 10:19 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 41 min |
| Feb 24, 2:39 AM CST | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 4 days |
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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.