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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 4:18 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 57 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
- May 2, 2003, 4:18 PM CDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clarke County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1069 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 851 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
220
WUUS54 KMOB 022118
SVRMOB
ALC025-022215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
416 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
* AT 416 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF CARLTON...MOVING EAST AT
20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
CARLTON BY 430 PM CDT
CHOCTAW BLUFF BY 435 PM CDT
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF
GOLFBALLS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
LAT...LON 3146 8786 3143 8772 3124 8789 3127 8796
3134 8789The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Washington | 57 min |
| May 2, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 43 min |
| May 2, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 53 min |
| May 2, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 56 min |
| May 2, 5:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 59 min |
| May 2, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 33 min |
| May 2, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Wilcox | 52 min |
| May 2, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Wilcox | 50 min |
| May 2, 6:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Wilcox | 49 min |
| May 2, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 42 min |
| May 2, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 28 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.