Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 7:44 PM CDT for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Butler County, AL
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, 5:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 770 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1082 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
943 WUUS54 KMOB 260044 SVRMOB ALC013-260130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 744 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 744 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF GEORGIANA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CURRENTLY IN EFFECT. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GEORGIANA BY 800 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3180 8691 3159 8690 3155 8652 3178 8646
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 25, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 23 min |
| Apr 25, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 50 min |
| Apr 25, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 25 min |
| Apr 25, 7:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 52 min |
| Apr 25, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 35 min |
| Apr 25, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 8:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Apr 25, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 47 min |
| Apr 25, 9:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 46 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.