Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2003, 8:25 PM CDT for Clarke County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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 16, 2003, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2003, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clarke County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 2737 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
709 WUUS54 KMOB 170125 SVRMOB ALC025-170200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 825 PM CDT WED JUL 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 825 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WALKER SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALMA BY 830 PM CDT... CHOCTAW BLUFF BY 850 PM CDT... CARLTON BY 900 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. CALL 1-800-284-9054 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3159 8771 3162 8791 3133 8788 3130 8782 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 43 min |
| Jul 16, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw | 54 min |
| Jul 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jul 16, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 25 min |
| Jul 16, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 112 min | |
| Jul 16, 11:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 112 min | |
| Jul 17, 12:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 87 min |
| Jul 17, 2:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 72 min | |
| Jul 17, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 35 min |
| Jul 17, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Jul 17, 3:22 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Jul 17, 3:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Jul 17, 4:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 22 min |
| Jul 17, 4:57 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Jul 17, 5:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 55 min | |
| Jul 17, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 35 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.