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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Mobile, AL

April 7, 2003Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2003, 3:42 PM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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, 3:42 PM CDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2003, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Covington County, AL

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, 3:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 672 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 293 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.4

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The text

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

490 
WUUS54 KMOB 072042
SVRMOB
ALC039-072130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
342 PM CDT MON APR 7 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 342 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF FALCO...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PLEASANT HOME BY 345 PM CDT
  WATKINS BRIDGE...RED OAK BY 400 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 3116 8669 3100 8669 3104 8604 3129 8609

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 10:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Choctaw	65 min
Apr 6, 11:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Clarke	56 min
Apr 7, 12:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	46 min
Apr 7, 12:37 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wilcox	23 min
Apr 7, 1:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wilcox	42 min
Apr 7, 6:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	44 min
Apr 7, 7:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	53 min
Apr 7, 1:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	28 min
Apr 7, 5:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Baldwin	3 hr

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.