Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2003, 4:38 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 22 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 17, 2003, 4:38 PM CDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mobile County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 2118 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 172138 SVRMOB ALC097-172200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 435 PM CDT THU JUL 17 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 435 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR TANNER WILLIAMS TO NEAR LADD STADIUM...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... SEVEN HILLS...AND COTTAGE HILL PARK BY 440 PM CDT... KNOLLWOOD HOSPITAL BY 450 PM CDT... DAWES BY 455 PM CDT MOBILE GREYHOUND PARK...AND HOLLINGERS ISLAND BY 500 PM CDT 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. CALL 1-800-284-9054 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3081 8838 3076 8804 3049 8810 3054 8837 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 35 min |
| 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, 4:57 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.