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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 1:26 PM CDT for Clarke County, Monroe County, Alabama. It was in force for 49 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 22, 2003, 1:26 PM CDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2003, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Clarke County, AL, Monroe County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2360 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
519 WUUS54 KMOB 221826 SVRMOB ALC025-099-221915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 128 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA CLARKE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF GAINESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BARLOW BEND BY 140 PM CDT HOMEWOOD BY 145 PM CDT CLAIBORNE BY 205 PM CDT MANISTEE BY 210 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 3150 8789 3143 8789 3131 8742 3163 8716 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 1:17 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Jul 22, 1:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 39 min |
| Jul 22, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 3:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Monroe | 76 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.