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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Mobile, AL

February 26, 2003Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 26, 2003, 1:11 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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, 1:11 PM CST (19:11 UTC)
Expired
Feb 26, 2003, 1:45 PM CST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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 nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-02-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-02-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 289 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

098 
WUUS54 KMOB 261911
SVRMOB
ALC003-261945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
110 PM CST WED FEB 26 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 145 PM CST

* AT 110 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN MOBILE 
BAY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  FORT MORGAN BY 115 PM CST
  TURKEY BRANCH...CLAY CITY BY 120 PM CST
  SILVERHILL...WEEKS BAY BY 125 PM CST
  ROBERTSDALE...SUMMERDALE BY 130 PM CST

IN PARTICULAR...LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THIS LINE 
OF STORMS.  IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY 
SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

LAT...LON 3023 8803 3024 8786 3029 8776 3042 8792
          3053 8792 3062 8751 3066 8740 3060 8740
          3053 8746 3046 8740 3031 8753 3024 8772

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 26, 12:39 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningMOB66 min
Feb 26, 12:39 PM CSTSpecial Marine WarningMOB66 min
Feb 26, 12:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile36 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.