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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 5:42 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 63 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, 5:42 PM CDT (22:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 12:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 252242 SVRMOB ALC131-252345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 542 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 645 PM CDT * AT 542 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAMISON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CATHERINE BY 545 PM CDT PRAIRIE BY 555 PM CDT REHOBOTH BY 600 PM CDT MILLERS FERRY BY 610 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 3222 8762 3204 8766 3194 8726 3216 8720
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 47 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
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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.