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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Mobile, AL

March 9, 2003Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2003, 9:02 AM CST for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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: Mar 9, 2003, 9:02 AM CST (15:02 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2003, 9:30 AM CST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:03 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

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1230 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 85 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -195 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 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.

729 
WUUS54 KMOB 091502
SVRMOB
ALC131-091530-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
902 AM CST SUN MAR 9 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 930 AM CST

* AT 902 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKWEST...MOVING EAST AT
  70 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ESTELLE...FATAMA BY 905 AM CST
  DARLINGTON...CALEDONIA BY 910 AM CST
  MCBRYDES...ALLENTON BY 915 AM CST
  FURMAN BY 920 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.

LAT...LON 3202 8741 3184 8749 3186 8692 3207 8686

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 12:20 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		55 min
Mar 9, 1:27 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		63 min
Mar 9, 5:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	46 min
Mar 9, 6:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	32 min
Mar 9, 7:08 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	37 min
Mar 9, 7:14 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		61 min
Mar 9, 8:26 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler, Crenshaw	34 min
Mar 9, 8:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Escambia	62 min
Mar 9, 8:48 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh	27 min
Mar 9, 9:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	44 min
Mar 9, 10:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2003 Every 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.