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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 128, NWS Mobile, AL

May 2, 2003Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2003, 6:33 PM CDT for Escambia County, Florida; Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 42 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, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 114 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.

387 
WUUS54 KMOB 022333
SVRMOB
ALC003-FLC033-030015-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 632 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR DYAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PHILLIPSVILLE BY 635 PM CDT
  WALNUT HILL BY 655 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.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH
LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

LAT...LON 3105 8762 3094 8779 3066 8756 3081 8736

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Okaloosa, Santa Rosa	55 min
May 2, 5:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	59 min
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, 5:57 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, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Monroe	28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.