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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Mobile, AL

April 25, 2003Wayne County, Mississippi; Washington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi; Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 47 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: Apr 25, 2003, 5:28 PM CDT (22:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Washington County, AL, Wayne County, MS

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 25, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 1302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 572 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 219 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 8.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

950 
WUUS54 KMOB 252228
SVRMOB
ALC129-MSC153-252315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
527 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 527 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF BATTLES...MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BATTLES...BUCKATUNNA BY 530 PM CDT
  STATE LINE BY 535 PM CDT
  JORDON...CHATOM BY 550 PM CDT

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH
THIS STORM.  IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY
SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3159 8868 3143 8865 3142 8812 3158 8814

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	52 min
Apr 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry	54 min
Apr 25, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	40 min
Apr 25, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	24 min
Apr 25, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene	37 min
Apr 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	58 min
Apr 25, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	36 min
Apr 25, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	24 min
Apr 25, 1:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wilcox	31 min
Apr 25, 2:21 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		24 min
Apr 25, 5:10 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		110 min
Apr 25, 5:10 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		110 min
Apr 25, 6:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	35 min
Apr 25, 6:55 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Apr 25, 6:55 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Apr 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	54 min
Apr 25, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	63 min
Apr 25, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	35 min
Apr 25, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.