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Special Weather Statement, NWS Mobile, AL

February 10, 2021Okaloosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this special weather statement at Feb 10, 2021, 1:24 PM CST for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 66 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 10, 2021, 1:24 PM CST (19:24 UTC)
Expired: Feb 10, 2021, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL

County Okaloosa County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 217 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 84 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted.

449 
WWUS84 KMOB 101924
SPSMOB

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
124 PM CST Wed Feb 10 2021
 
FLZ203>206-102030-
Okaloosa Inland FL-Okaloosa Coastal FL-Santa Rosa Coastal FL-
Santa Rosa Inland FL-
124 PM CST Wed Feb 10 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
SOUTHERN OKALOOSA AND SOUTHEASTERN SANTA ROSA COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM
CST...

At 124 PM CST, the strong thunderstorm was located 8 miles east of
Bagdad, moving east at 35 mph.

Half inch hail and wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph will be possible with
this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Wright, Niceville, Eglin AFB and Valparaiso. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may lead
to localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 3045 8642 3050 8645 3050 8644 3051 8642
      3052 8650 3048 8648 3046 8649 3045 8654
      3048 8698 3049 8700 3072 8697 3072 8639
      3045 8639
TIME...MOT...LOC 1924Z 268DEG 30KT 3058 8689 

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 9, 11:10 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 3 more	10 hr
Feb 10, 8:49 AM CST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MOB		35 hr
Feb 10, 2:47 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	MOB	Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more	18 hr
Feb 10, 1:53 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	37 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.