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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 130, NWS Mobile, AL

August 2, 2002

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2002, 4:37 PM CDT. It was in force for 23 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: Aug 2, 2002, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2002, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

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 Aug 2, 2:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
243 PM CDT FRI AUG 02 2002

AFTER AN ACTIVE DAY...SATELLITE SHOWS CLOUD TOP TEMPERATURES
BEGINNING TO WARM OVER THE FORECAST AREA AND RADAR SHOWS SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING ISOLATED.  THUS...WILL DO A QUICK UPDATE
TO ZONES AND DROP OFF THE SCATTERED NATURE OF PRECIPITATION AND CALL
FOR A GENERAL ISOLATED COVERAGE THROUGH THE EVENING.  /10

.MOB...
AL...NONE.
FL...NONE.
MS...NONE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 2, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	44 min
Aug 2, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	19 min
Aug 2, 4:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB	57 min
Aug 2, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	23 min
Aug 2, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	34 min
Aug 2, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB	44 min
Aug 2, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB	44 min
Aug 2, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	41 min
Aug 2, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	22 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text.