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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2003, 12:39 PM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
- Feb 26, 2003, 12:39 PM CST (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2003, 1:15 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 435 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
292
WUUS54 KMOB 261839
SVRMOB
ALC097-261915-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1239 PM CST WED FEB 26 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 115 PM CST
* AT 1239 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM BAYOU LA BATRE TO 6 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CODEN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS LINE OF STORMS
SHOULD BEGIN PRODUCING LAREG HAIL TO ABOUT THE SIZE OF DIMES.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
MON LOUIS BY 1245 PM CST
CEDAR POINT BY 1250 PM CST
DAUPHIN ISLAND...SAND ISLAND BY 1255 PM CST
STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH
THESE STORMS. IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER IN A
STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
LAT...LON 3042 8828 3032 8836 3022 8833 3021 8808
3051 8813What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 26, 9:54 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 9:54 AM CST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 954 AM WED FEB 26 2003 UPDATED ZONES TO FRESHEN UP WORDING. .MOB... .MS...NONE. .AL...NONE. .FL...NONE 21/MONTANEZ
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 26, 6:00 AM CST, 6 hours 39 minutes before
ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-261800- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 600 AM CST WED FEB 26 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INLAND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...AND THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. .DAY ONE...(TODAY INTO TONIGHT) SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE AREA TODAY INTO TONIGHT...BUT WITH LIMITED INSTABILITY...NONE ARE EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...(THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY) NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL...STORM SPOTTERS AND HAM RADIO OPERATORS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED THROUGH TONIGHT.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Feb 26, 12:18 PM CST, 21 minutes before
ALZ063-261915- THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1218 PM CST WED FEB 26 2003 ...THUNDERSTORM ADVISORY FOR MOBILE COUNTY UNTIL 115 PM CST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF GRAND BAY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND NEAR... GRAND BAY...DIXON CORNER...DEES...ST ELMO...IRVINGTON...THEODORE AND MOBILE GREYHOUND PARK THROUGH 115 PM CST. THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 45 MPH COULD DOWN SMALL TREE LIMBS OR BRANCHES AND BLOW AROUND UNSECURED SMALL OBJECTS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES ARE LIKELY. SEEK SHELTER IN A SAFE HOME OR BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO TWO INCHES IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...RESULTING IN BRIEF PONDING OF WATER AROUND LOW LYING AREAS. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO WATER COVERED ROADWAYS. THE DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW A SAFE CROSSING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 12:39 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 66 min | |
| Feb 26, 12:39 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 66 min | |
| Feb 26, 1:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.