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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Mobile, AL

April 27, 2023Okaloosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 2023, 1:32 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 27, 2023, 1:32 PM CDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 27, 2023, 2:00 PM CDT
In force: 28 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), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 27, 5:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 27, 1:00 PM CDT, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 1:00 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 27, 12:58 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 27, 1:03 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 27, 1:17 PM CDT, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 27, 1:21 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 27, 1:29 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 27, 1:30 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 7:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	52 min
Apr 26, 7:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Choctaw	50 min
Apr 27, 4:00 AM CDT	Rip Current Statement	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	5 days
Apr 27, 6:24 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		96 min
Apr 27, 6:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	39 min
Apr 27, 7:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Washington	45 min
Apr 27, 7:41 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		94 min
Apr 27, 7:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	53 min
Apr 27, 7:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	46 min
Apr 27, 8:25 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		40 min
Apr 27, 8:45 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	60 min
Apr 27, 8:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	59 min
Apr 27, 9:15 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		90 min
Apr 27, 9:38 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		97 min
Apr 27, 9:51 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		84 min
Apr 27, 10:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	55 min
Apr 27, 10:36 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		39 min
Apr 27, 10:58 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		39 min
Apr 27, 11:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Apr 27, 11:10 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		65 min
Apr 27, 11:15 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		45 min
Apr 27, 11:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	45 min
Apr 27, 11:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Baldwin	26 min
Apr 27, 11:21 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		84 min
Apr 27, 11:24 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Apr 27, 11:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	51 min
Apr 27, 11:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MOB	Mobile	3 hr
Apr 27, 11:57 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		99 min
Apr 27, 12:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr
Apr 27, 12:08 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		52 min
Apr 27, 12:17 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		88 min
Apr 27, 12:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	33 min
Apr 27, 12:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		45 min
Apr 27, 1:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		87 min
Apr 27, 1:42 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		93 min
Apr 27, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		115 min
Apr 27, 9:54 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	51 min
Apr 27, 10:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Santa Rosa	62 min
Apr 27, 11:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	52 min
Apr 27, 11:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa	42 min
Apr 27, 11:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	52 min
Apr 27, 12:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	45 min
Apr 27, 12:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	3 hr
Apr 27, 12:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	25 min
Apr 27, 12:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	77 min
Apr 26, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Wayne	40 min
Apr 27, 4:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry, Stone	48 min
Apr 27, 5:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Perry, Stone	47 min
Apr 27, 6:01 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	George, Stone	17 min
Apr 27, 6:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Stone	50 min
Apr 27, 6:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Perry	47 min
Apr 27, 8:36 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Stone	39 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.