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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Mobile, AL

April 25, 2003Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 25, 2003, 1:36 AM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 24 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 25, 2003, 1:36 AM CDT (06:36 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilcox County, AL

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 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 nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 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.

650 
WUUS54 KMOB 250636
SVRMOB
ALC131-250700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
136 AM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 AM CDT

* AT 136 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAMISON TO
  15 MILES WEST OF ANNE MARIE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  LAMISON...CATHERINE BY 150 AM CDT
  ALBERTA...KIMBROUGH BY 155 AM CDT
  REHOBOTH...PRAIRIE BY 200 AM CDT

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.

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 3229 8769 3215 8780 3212 8784 3201 8801
          3200 8687 3210 8688 3217 8690 3232 8693

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 12:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	36 min
Apr 25, 1:59 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wilcox	31 min
Apr 25, 2:21 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		24 min
Apr 25, 5:10 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		110 min
Apr 25, 5:10 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		110 min
Apr 25, 6:25 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Covington	35 min
Apr 25, 6:55 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Apr 25, 6:55 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Apr 25, 4:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Choctaw	54 min
Apr 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Washington	47 min
Apr 25, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	63 min
Apr 25, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Washington	35 min
Apr 25, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	40 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.