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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 236, NWS Mobile, AL

July 22, 2003Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2003, 3:56 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baldwin County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

680 
WUUS54 KMOB 222056
SVRMOB
ALC003-222130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
356 PM CDT TUE JUL 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 356 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF REDTOWN TO 6
  MILES WEST OF LATHAM...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  LATHAM BY 405 PM CDT
  VAUGHN...REDTOWN BY 410 PM CDT
  STOCKTON...LOTTIE BY 420 PM CDT
  RABUN...I65 AND AL 225 BY 425 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.

LAT...LON 3125 8764 3112 8794 3079 8794 3094 8762

$$

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, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke, Monroe	49 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, 3:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Monroe	76 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.