Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 2003, 2:44 PM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 61 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
- Feb 21, 2003, 2:44 PM CST (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2003, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 469 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 380 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 504 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMOB 212044
SVRMOB
ALC003-212145-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
244 PM CST FRI FEB 21 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 345 PM CST
* AT 244 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 3 MILES WEST OF CLAY CITY TO 5
MILES SOUTH OF FORT MORGAN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
CLAY CITY...WEEKS BAY BY 250 PM CST
SILVERHILL...MAGNOLIA SPRINGS BY 255 PM CST
SUMMERDALE...ROBERTSDALE BY 305 PM CST
OAK...FOLEY BY 310 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 3056 8793 3025 8801 3009 8819 3009 8777
3025 8759 3059 8744The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 7:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile, Washington | 51 min |
| Feb 21, 8:38 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Feb 21, 9:58 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Feb 21, 9:58 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Feb 21, 12:01 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 119 min | |
| Feb 21, 12:01 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 119 min | |
| Feb 21, 1:51 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 114 min | |
| Feb 21, 1:51 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 114 min | |
| Feb 21, 3:55 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Feb 21, 3:55 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Feb 21, 5:26 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 64 min | |
| Feb 21, 5:53 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 52 min |
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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.