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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2003, 3:39 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 51 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
- Apr 7, 2003, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 10:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 1394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 8.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
175 WUUS54 KMOB 072039 SVRMOB MSC131-072130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 339 PM CDT MON APR 7 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 339 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MCHENRY...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WLOX TV STATION TOWER BY 345 PM CDT BEATRICE BY 350 PM CDT RAMSEY SPRINGS BY 355 PM CDT 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. LAT...LON 3074 8930 3057 8923 3071 8889 3086 8889
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 53 min |
| Apr 6, 10:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 65 min |
| Apr 7, 11:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 4:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Stone | 108 min |
| Apr 7, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 17 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.