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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Mobile, AL

August 25, 2002

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2002, 1:14 PM CDT. It was in force for 31 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 25, 2002, 1:14 PM CDT (18:14 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2002, 1:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 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 25, 12:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 12:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1130 AM CDT SUN AUG 25 2002

NO CHANGE TO BUMPED UP POPS TODAYS FORECAST...MERELY MENTIONED SCT
CONVECTION THIS MORNING ALLOWING FOR SHRA/TSRA FORMING UP AHEAD. WE
THOUGHT EARLIER THAT VIGOROUS OUTFLOW WOULD PROMOTE SINKING AHEAD OF
THE LARGE MCS WHICH CONTINUES MOVING SOUTHEAST. UNOFFICIAL RAIN GAGE
CLICKED ONCE FOR ONE ONE-HUNDREDTH GIVING US AN UNOFFICIAL RAIN
EVENT. SO APPARENTLY CONVECTION FROM SFC HEATING IS OVERCOMING ANY
PRE-MCS SUBSIDENCE.

MCS STILL HANGING TOGETHER PRETTY WELL CURRENTLY LOCATED IN NW
MISSISSIPPI MOVG PAST JAN NOW TWD PIB...MEI...AND INTERSTATE 59 AND
IN FACT HAS CLEARED JCT OF I-55 AND I-20 VCNTY OF FLORENCE AND
CRYSTAL SPRINGS IN E CNTRL MS. MCS SHUD TOUCH OUR NORTHWEST CWA NET
1300 CDT. TIMING STILL LOOKS GOOD.

WET MICROBURST RISK FROM JAN SDG UPGRADED TO CHC RISK. EARLIER RUC
40 MODEL DERIVED GAVE SLIGHT RISK. SPC REVIEWING SITUATION...LATEST
SWOMCD GERMANE.

/77

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

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 25, 12:43 PM CDT, 31 minutes before

ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-260300-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...AMENDED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
600 AM CDT SUN AUG 25 2002

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHWEST
ALABAMA...AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE.

THE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCES MOVING THROUGH THE DEEP SOUTH TODAY
WILL BRING NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE REGION BEGINNING
SHORTLY BEFORE NOON THROUGH TONIGHT. THE FIRST CLUSTER OF
THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO BE IN THE AREA AROUND NOON. ADDITIONAL
THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BY LATE AFTERNOON AND PERSIST INTO THE
OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF BRINGING SEVERE
WEATHER TO OTHER PARTS OF MISSISSIPPI THIS MORNING. THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AND THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER ARE CURRENTLY
REVIEWING THE SITUATION FOR POSSIBLY ISSUING A WATCH THIS AFTERNOON.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND GUSTY WINDS WILL OCCUR IN
THIS ANTICIPATED EPISODE OF WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY.
ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY PERSONNEL AND STORM SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED
THROUGH TODAY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 25, 12:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	36 min
Aug 25, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	30 min
Aug 25, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	26 min
Aug 25, 1:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB	55 min
Aug 25, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	23 min
Aug 25, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	25 min
Aug 25, 2:33 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB	57 min
Aug 25, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB	54 min
Aug 25, 3:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	26 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.