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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Mobile, AL

April 25, 2003Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 7:55 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mobile County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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: 2144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1244 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.4

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The text

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

018 
WUUS54 KMOB 260055
SVRMOB
ALC097-260130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 753 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF GEORGETOWN...MOVING       
  EAST AT 35 MPH.  

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SATSUMA...BUCKS BY 800 PM CDT
  CREOLA...I65 AND US 43 BY 805 PM CDT

ANOTHER SEVERE STORM WAS DETECTED OVER EXTREME WESTERN GEORGE COUNTY 
MISSISSIPPI MOVING INTO NORTHWEST MOBILE COUNTY NEAR MOFFETT.  THIS 
STORM WAS ALSO MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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

LAT...LON 3102 8844 3088 8842 3081 8801 3103 8797

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, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler	46 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.