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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 2003, 3:27 PM CST for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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 13, 2003, 3:27 PM CST (21:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2003, 4:00 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 10:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 13, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 797 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -157 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 209 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
716 WUUS54 KMOB 132127 SVRMOB ALC129-132200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 329 PM CST THU MAR 13 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 400 PM CST * AT 328 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF TOINETTE TO 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TOPTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... MCINTOSH BY 335 PM CST MALCOLM BY 334 PM CST STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. LAT...LON 3143 8793 3117 8839 3117 8820 3117 8795
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 12, 6:28 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Mar 12, 6:28 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Mar 12, 8:21 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Mar 13, 1:03 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Mar 13, 1:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 30 min |
| Mar 13, 2:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 39 min |
| Mar 13, 2:10 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Mar 13, 2:10 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Mar 13, 2:35 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 55 min | |
| Mar 13, 9:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 23 min |
| Mar 13, 9:26 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 19 min |
| Mar 13, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 28 min |
| Mar 13, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke | 34 min |
| Mar 13, 2:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 31 min |
| Mar 13, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 25 min |
| Mar 13, 3:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 3:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 29 min |
| Mar 13, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe | 30 min |
| Mar 13, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 45 min |
| Mar 13, 3:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 44 min |
| Mar 13, 4:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Crenshaw | 45 min |
| Mar 13, 4:03 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Mar 13, 4:03 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 117 min | |
| Mar 13, 4:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 40 min |
| Mar 13, 4:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 54 min |
| Mar 13, 4:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 34 min |
| Mar 13, 4:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 31 min |
| Mar 13, 4:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 22 min |
| Mar 13, 4:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 47 min |
| Mar 13, 5:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 64 min |
| Mar 13, 5:13 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 32 min |
| Mar 13, 5:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 42 min |
| Mar 13, 5:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 46 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.