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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Mobile, AL

April 25, 2003Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2003, 6:25 AM CDT for Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 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, 6:25 AM CDT (11:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 7:00 AM CDT
In force: 35 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 25, 6:05 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 1277 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 208 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.

394 
WFUS54 KMOB 251125
TORMOB
ALC039-251200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
625 AM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 700 AM CDT

* AT 620 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES WEST OF SANFORD...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  OPP...ONYCHA BY 630 AM CDT
  ESTOTHEL BY 635 AM 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.

LAT...LON 3140 8646 3122 8646 3119 8579 3141 8578

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, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wilcox	24 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, 6:55 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

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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.