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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL

February 15, 2003Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 15, 2003, 7:00 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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 15, 2003, 7:00 PM CST (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Feb 15, 2003, 7:45 PM CST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 15, 3:05 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2003-02-16Temperature 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2003-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 205 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
310 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.

544 
WUUS54 KMOB 160100
SVRMOB
MSC153-160145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
659 PM CST SAT FEB 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 745 PM CST

* AT 659 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOICE TO    
  13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CHICORA...MOVING EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.  

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WINCHESTER BY 705 PM CST
  CHICORA BY 710 PM CST
  ROBINSON JUNCTION...GRETNA BY 715 PM CST
  BUCKATUNNA BY 720 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.

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 3184 8866 3145 8873 3145 8847 3187 8849

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 6:31 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWayne29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2003Every 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.