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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 23, 2016, 8:12 PM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report 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
- Feb 23, 2016, 8:12 PM CST (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2016, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.25 in
Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 8:18 PM CST | TORNADO | 5 Se Pace, FL | INTERSECTION OF 14TH AND SAN MIGUEL CLOSED DUE TO DEBRIS ON ROADWAY. |
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 2:13 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:08 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 267 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.
983
WFUS54 KMOB 240212
TORMOB
FLC033-113-240245-
/O.NEW.KMOB.TO.W.0023.160224T0212Z-160224T0245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
812 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA...
SOUTHEASTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN FLORIDA...
* UNTIL 845 PM CST
* AT 811 PM CST...A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO WAS LOCATED
OVER FERRY PASS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION.
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...YOU ARE IN A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. FLYING DEBRIS
MAY BE DEADLY TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT SHELTER. MOBILE
HOMES WILL BE DESTROYED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO HOMES...
BUSINESSES...AND VEHICLES IS LIKELY AND COMPLETE
DESTRUCTION IS POSSIBLE.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
MULAT AND FLORIDATOWN AROUND 815 PM CST.
PACE AND PEA RIDGE AROUND 820 PM CST.
MILTON AND BAGDAD AROUND 825 PM CST.
ROEVILLE...WHITING FIELD AND POINT BAKER AROUND 830 PM CST.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPEAT...A LARGE...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND POTENTIALLY DEADLY
TORNADO IS DEVELOPING. TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE...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.
TORNADOES ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. DO NOT
WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW!
&&
LAT...LON 3051 8728 3092 8689 3082 8679 3065 8679
3052 8701 3058 8698 3060 8702 3057 8700
3055 8701 3047 8710 3052 8710 3053 8713
3055 8712 3055 8714 3058 8715 3058 8718
3055 8717 3053 8719 3049 8715 3041 8719
TIME...MOT...LOC 0211Z 227DEG 45KT 3050 8719
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
TORNADO DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL...1.25IN
$$1 follow-up statement
445
WWUS54 KMOB 240223
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
823 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016
FLC033-240233-
/O.CAN.KMOB.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-160224T0245Z/
ESCAMBIA FL-
823 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ESCAMBIA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT
OF THE WARNED AREA THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM CST FOR NORTHWESTERN
FLORIDA.
LAT...LON 3060 8714 3092 8689 3082 8679 3065 8679
3060 8696 3058 8698 3060 8702 3057 8700
3055 8701 3053 8706 3053 8710 3055 8712
3055 8714 3058 8715 3059 8715
TIME...MOT...LOC 0223Z 235DEG 44KT 3058 8706
$$
FLC113-240245-
/O.CON.KMOB.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-160224T0245Z/
SANTA ROSA FL-
823 PM CST TUE FEB 23 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 845 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTY...
AT 823 PM CST...A CONFIRMED LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED OVER BAGDAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION.
HAZARD...DAMAGING TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR CONFIRMED TORNADO.
IMPACT...YOU ARE IN A LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. FLYING DEBRIS MAY
BE DEADLY TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES
WILL BE DESTROYED. CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE TO HOMES...
BUSINESSES...AND VEHICLES IS LIKELY AND COMPLETE DESTRUCTION
IS POSSIBLE.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
ROEVILLE AND WHITING FIELD AROUND 830 PM CST.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TORNADOES ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. DO NOT
WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW!
&&
LAT...LON 3060 8714 3092 8689 3082 8679 3065 8679
3060 8696 3058 8698 3060 8702 3057 8700
3055 8701 3053 8706 3053 8710 3055 8712
3055 8714 3058 8715 3059 8715
TIME...MOT...LOC 0223Z 235DEG 44KT 3058 8706
TORNADO...OBSERVED
TORNADO DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE
HAIL...1.25IN
$$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, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 67 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, 8:30 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.