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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Mobile, AL

April 25, 2003Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 9:14 PM CDT for Baldwin 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, 9:14 PM CDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baldwin 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, 9:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.

897 
WUUS54 KMOB 260214
SVRMOB
ALC003-260300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 1000 PM CDT

* AT 913 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MALBIS...MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40    
  MPH.  THE STRONGEST PART OF THIS STORM WILL MOVE GENERALLY ALONG   
  INTERSTATE 10 ACROSS CENTRAL BALDWIN COUNTY.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LOXLEY BY 915 PM CDT
  ROSINTON...ROBERTSDALE BY 920 PM CDT
  ELSANOR...GATESWOOD BY 925 PM CDT
  SEMINOLE BY 935 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 3079 8779 3060 8793 3047 8745 3070 8746

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, 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

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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.