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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Mobile, AL

December 27, 2024Escambia County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 27, 2024, 10:43 PM CST for Escambia County, Santa Rosa 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: Dec 27, 2024, 10:43 PM CST (04:43 UTC)
Expired: Dec 27, 2024, 11:13 PM CST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Escambia County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:44 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 nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 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.

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: 1057 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 747 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

826 
WUUS54 KMOB 280443
SVRMOB
FLC033-113-280530-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0113.241228T0443Z-241228T0530Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
1043 PM CST Fri Dec 27 2024

The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Western Santa Rosa County in northwestern Florida...
  Central Escambia County in northwestern Florida...

* Until 1130 PM CST.

* At 1043 PM CST, severe thunderstorms were located along a line
  extending from 7 miles south of Bratt to 5 miles southwest of
  Molino to 6 miles west of Gonzalez to 6 miles north of Lillian,
  moving east at 20 mph.

  HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail.

  SOURCE...Radar indicated.

  IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include...
  Pea Ridge, Ferry Pass, Ensley, Molino, Gonzalez, Pace, Roeville,
  Bagdad, Floridatown, Point Baker, Brent, and Milton.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3052 8743 3058 8740 3067 8739 3079 8747
      3088 8757 3092 8709 3078 8699 3066 8697
      3058 8698 3041 8710
TIME...MOT...LOC 0443Z 270DEG 17KT 3086 8748 3079 8741 3067 8738 3059
8739 3051 8747

HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.88 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

$$

JLH

1 follow-up statement

820 
WWUS54 KMOB 280513
SVSMOB

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
1113 PM CST Fri Dec 27 2024

FLC033-113-280523-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-241228T0530Z/
Santa Rosa FL-Escambia FL-
1113 PM CST Fri Dec 27 2024

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WESTERN SANTA ROSA AND CENTRAL
ESCAMBIA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

The storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe
limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.  However, small hail,
gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with these
thunderstorms.

LAT...LON 3052 8743 3058 8740 3067 8739 3079 8747
      3088 8757 3092 8709 3078 8699 3066 8697
      3058 8698 3041 8710
TIME...MOT...LOC 0512Z 270DEG 17KT 3086 8732 3079 8725 3067 8722 3059
8723 3051 8731

$$

JLH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 27, 10:30 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	45 min
Dec 28, 2:47 AM CST	High Surf Advisory	MOB	Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	33 hr
Dec 28, 4:11 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	94 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.