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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL

March 9, 2003Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2003, 9:16 AM CST for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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, 9:16 AM CST (15:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2003, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Covington County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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.

101 
WUUS54 KMOB 091516
SVRMOB
ALC039-091600-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 AM CST

* AT 916 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOANGO...MOVING EAST AT 60
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ANDALUSIA...RIVER FALLS BY 920 AM CST
  LIBERTYVILLE BY 925 AM CST
  SANFORD...BABBIE BY 930 AM CST
  OPP...ONYCHA BY 935 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.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY
INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3140 8670 3122 8671 3113 8566 3138 8564

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, 9:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	28 min
Mar 9, 10:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	29 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.