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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Mobile, AL

May 2, 2003Butler County, Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 6:26 PM CDT for Butler County, Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Butler County, AL, Wilcox 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, 3:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
May 2, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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: 134 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -350 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1399 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

611 
WUUS54 KMOB 022325
SVRMOB
ALC013-131-020015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 622 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF SNOW HILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FURMAN BY 625 PM CDT
  MONTERY BY 635 PM CDT
  FOREST HOME...HERBERT BY 645 PM CDT

* A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT.  

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH 
THIS STORM. ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
STORMS. IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY 
SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3218 8698 3204 8711 3171 8668 3188 8651

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, 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, 6:33 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.