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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 2003, 2:52 AM CST for Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 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
- Oct 26, 2003, 2:52 AM CST (08:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2003, 3:30 AM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 2:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 260852 SVRMOB MSC111-131-260930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 252 AM CST SUN OCT 26 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 330 AM CST * AT 252 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF WIGGINS...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WIGGINS BY 315 AM CST 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3098 8940 3080 8941 3075 8899 3098 8897 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 3:47 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 28 min |
| Oct 26, 3:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 34 min |
| Oct 26, 4:08 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 22 min |
| Oct 26, 4:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 34 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.