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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Mobile, AL

March 12, 2003Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 2003, 3:48 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama; Escambia County, Florida. It was in force for 27 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 12, 2003, 3:48 PM CST (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 2003, 4:15 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Escambia County, FL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 251 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 202 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

875 
WUUS54 KMOB 122148
SVRMOB
ALC003-FLC033-122215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
345 PM CST WED MAR 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA

* UNTIL 415 PM CST

* AT 345 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SEMINOLE...MOVING EAST AT
  15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SEMINOLE...LILLIAN BY 350 PM CST
  BEULAH BY 355 PM CST
  BELLVIEW...CANTONMENT BY 405 PM CST
  ENSLEY...GONZALEZ BY 410 PM CST

THE MAIN THREAT FROM THIS STORM WILL BE LARGE HAIL.  REPORTS OF DIME 
SIZE HAIL WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLEY AREA.

LAT...LON 3051 8763 3035 8755 3046 8719 3072 8738

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 3:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	31 min
Mar 12, 3:25 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		65 min
Mar 12, 4:28 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Mar 12, 4:28 PM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Mar 12, 4:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	26 min
Mar 12, 4:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	46 min
Mar 12, 5:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia, Santa Rosa	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2003 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Florida, 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.