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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 239, NWS Mobile, AL

July 29, 2003Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2003, 2:03 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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 29, 2003, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 92 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: 1959 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 868 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -8 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.

658 
WUUS54 KMOB 291903
SVRMOB
MSC131-291930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
202 PM CDT TUE JUL 29 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 202 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A   
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RAMSEY SPRINGS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15   
MPH.

* THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF...
  SOUTHEASTERN STONE COUNTY.

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.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE
WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3088 8892 3078 8907 3048 8894 3057 8870

$$

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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.