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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Mobile, AL

April 25, 2003Greene County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 5:36 PM CDT for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 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, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Greene 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1355 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 252236
SVRMOB
MSC041-252300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 536 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY...MOVING EAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  NORTHEASTERN GREENE AND EASTERN GREENE COUNTIES.

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

LAT...LON 3144 8865 3134 8868 3119 8846 3142 8847

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, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	47 min
Apr 25, 5:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	40 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.