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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Mobile, AL

March 14, 2003Conecuh County, Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 14, 2003, 5:00 PM CST for Conecuh County, Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 60 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 14, 2003, 5:00 PM CST (23:00 UTC)
Expired: Mar 14, 2003, 6:00 PM CST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Conecuh County, AL, Escambia County, AL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 14, 4:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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.

548 
WUUS54 KMOB 142300
SVRMOB
ALC035-053-150000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
459 PM CST FRI MAR 14 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 600 PM CST

* AT 459 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WALLACE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  I65 AND AL 41 BY 505 PM CST
  RANGE...APPLETON BY 510 PM CST
  LENOX BY 515 PM CST
  I65 AND CR 6 BY 520 PM 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 3121 8738 3109 8722 3147 8677 3166 8701

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 14, 3:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	31 min
Mar 14, 4:16 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	44 min
Mar 14, 4:35 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Covington	25 min
Mar 14, 5:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	37 min
Mar 14, 5:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	33 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.