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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Mobile, AL

April 26, 2025Okaloosa County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 2025, 5:34 PM CDT for Okaloosa County, Florida. It was in force for 41 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 26, 2025, 5:34 PM CDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2025, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 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 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 301 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: 442 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 763 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 26, 3:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 26, 3:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 26, 3:15 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
315 PM CDT Sat Apr 26 2025

ALZ261-263-262115-
Mobile Central AL-Mobile Inland AL-
315 PM CDT Sat Apr 26 2025

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY THROUGH
415 PM CDT...

At 314 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over
I65 And AL 158, or over Saraland. This storm was nearly stationary or
drifting slowly southwest.

HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include...
Midtown Mobile, Prichard, I65 And I165, I65 And AL 158, Semmes,
Chickasaw, Saraland, Downtown Mobile, and Satsuma.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3077 8830 3091 8812 3085 8799 3064 8806
TIME...MOT...LOC 2014Z 033DEG 4KT 3084 8811

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.00 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 4:41 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 5:07 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 26, 5:17 PM CDT, 17 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, 3:21 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	MOB	Choctaw, Covington, Washington	6 hr
Apr 26, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Mobile	60 min
Apr 26, 3:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	32 min
Apr 26, 4:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	34 min
Apr 26, 4:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	31 min
Apr 26, 5:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Okaloosa	23 min
Apr 26, 5:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Escambia	28 min
Apr 26, 5:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MOB	Santa Rosa	41 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.