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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 2003, 6:55 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 6, 2003, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2003, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 3297 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 7.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
369 WUUS54 KMOB 062355 SVRMOB MSC153-070030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 655 PM CDT WED AUG 6 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 730 PM CDT * AT 655 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WOODWARDS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WAYNESBORO BY 705 PM CDT... WINCHESTER...AND CLARA BY 710 PM CDT... CHICORA...AND ROBINSON JUNCTION BY 720 PM CDT... BUCKATUNNA BY 725 PM CDT...AND BATTLES BY 730 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. CALL 1-800-284-9059 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER. LAT...LON 3180 8863 3173 8882 3145 8873 3146 8846 $$
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.