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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 266, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 18, 2003, 10:36 AM CST for Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 54 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
- Nov 18, 2003, 10:36 AM CST (16:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 18, 2003, 11:30 AM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 6:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 620 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 273 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 181636 SVRMOB MSC111-153-181730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1035 AM CST TUE NOV 18 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 1130 AM CST * AT 1029 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES WEST OF BELLEVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF HATTIESBURG...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF BELLEVILLE BY 1040 AM CST RUNNELSTOWN AND TALLAHALA BY 1050 AM CST RHODES BY 1100 AM CST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAT...LON 3121 8941 3108 8926 3145 8881 3161 8900 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 18, 8:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 35 min |
| Nov 18, 10:56 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 49 min |
| Nov 18, 11:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 27 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.