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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2016, 10:15 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 30 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
- Mar 17, 2016, 10:15 PM CDT (03:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2016, 10:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Okaloosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:17 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 965 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted.
815
WUUS54 KMOB 180315
SVRMOB
FLC091-180345-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0095.160318T0315Z-160318T0345Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1015 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN OKALOOSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 1045 PM CDT
* AT 1015 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NICEVILLE...
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CRESTVIEW...NICEVILLE...DESTIN...VALPARAISO...EGLIN AFB...LAKE LORRAINE...
SHALIMAR...POSTIL AND FORT WALTON BEACH..
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3042 8656 3040 8656 3039 8653 3039 8656
3041 8658 3040 8660 3050 8660 3053 8671
3075 8651 3074 8639 3045 8639 3045 8642
3041 8644 3040 8640 3038 8640 3038 8651
TIME...MOT...LOC 0315Z 300DEG 36KT 3057 8650
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 65 min |
| Mar 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 38 min |
| Mar 17, 8:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Santa Rosa | 53 min |
| Mar 17, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 37 min |
| Mar 17, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 55 min |
| Mar 17, 10:01 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Okaloosa | 4 days |
| Mar 17, 10:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Okaloosa | 15 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.