Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2003, 1:13 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 32 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 21, 2003, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2003, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 1833 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 787 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
916 WUUS54 KMOB 211813 SVRMOB ALC097-211845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 112 PM CDT MON JUL 21 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 145 PM CDT * AT 112 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MOBILE GREYHOUND PARK TO 5 MILES WEST OF BAYOU LA BATRE...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... TILLMANS CORNER BY 115 PM CDT... CODEN...AND BAYOU LA BATRE BY 120 PM CDT... LAURENDINE BY 125 PM CDT... AND BROOKLEY FIELD AIRPORT BY 130 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 3066 8826 3035 8841 3030 8814 3064 8801 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 7:54 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jul 21, 11:44 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 31 min | |
| Jul 21, 12:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Jul 21, 12:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Jul 21, 1:21 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Jul 21, 1:21 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 54 min | |
| Jul 21, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 26 min |
| Jul 21, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 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.