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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL

April 24, 2003Perry County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2003, 6:16 PM CDT for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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 24, 2003, 6:16 PM CDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 2003, 6:45 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Perry County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 120 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-04-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 479 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2003-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 233 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
990 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
329 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

811 
WFUS54 KMOB 242316
TORMOB
MSC111-242345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
615 PM CDT THU APR 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 615 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH OF FERGUSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HINTONVILLE BY 620 PM CDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...ABANDON VEHICLES AND TRAILER
HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THE TRACK OF THE TORNADO HAS BEEN OVER THE NATIONAL FOREST BUT WILL 
CROSS US HIGHWAY 98 NEAR BEAUMONT AROUND 620 PM.

LAT...LON 3116 8917 3100 8907 3111 8883 3134 8883

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBPerry37 min
Apr 24, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBGreene63 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Mississippi, 2003Every tornado warning in 2003Tornadoes 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.