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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 256, NWS Mobile, AL

August 16, 2003Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 3:04 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 41 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 16, 2003, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2003, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
41 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), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 180 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1276 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -12 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1276 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 162004
SVRMOB
ALC003-162045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
304 PM CDT SAT AUG 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 304 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES WEST OF SILVERHILL...MOVING WEST AT 10
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FAIRHOPE...HOUSTONVILLE BY 325 PM CDT
  MONTROSE...BATTLES WHARF BY 330 PM CDT
  DAPHNE...SPANISH FORT BY 335 PM CDT
  JACKSON OAK...PARK CITY BY 340 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.

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.

LAT...LON 3044 8775 3060 8768 3073 8799 3052 8808

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 3:13 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB47 min
Aug 16, 4:14 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB61 min
Aug 16, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile49 min
Aug 16, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile43 min

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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.