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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Mobile, AL

May 2, 2003Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 5:57 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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, 5:57 PM CDT (22:57 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2003, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Covington 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
May 2, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 70 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: 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

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The text

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

703 
WUUS54 KMOB 022257
SVRMOB
ALC039-022330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
557 PM CDT FRI MAY 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT

* AT 557 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FLORALA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HOWELLS BY 605 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 3116 8620 3100 8619 3100 8639 3108 8642

The 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, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	57 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, 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

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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.