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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 209, NWS Mobile, AL

July 12, 2003Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 2003, 5:22 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 38 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: Jul 12, 2003, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 12, 2003, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baldwin County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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: 569 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -16 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.

463 
WUUS54 KMOB 122222
SVRMOB
ALC003-122300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
522 PM CDT SAT JUL 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 522 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES WEST OF SEMINOLE...MOVING SOUTHWEST AT
  5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ELSANOR BY 545 PM CDT
  ELBERTA...SUMMERDALE BY 600 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.

LAT...LON 3038 8765 3047 8772 3056 8774 3066 8749
          3056 8742 3053 8745 3048 8740 3036 8759

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 12, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Jul 12, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		65 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.