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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Mobile, AL

April 25, 2003Perry County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2003, 5:35 PM CDT for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 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, 5:35 PM CDT (22:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Perry County, MS

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, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 1355 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 643 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 5.8

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 252235
TORMOB
MSC111-252315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 531 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF BELLEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WINGATE...FERGUSON BY 545 PM CDT
  KITTRELL...HINTONVILLE BY 550 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.

LAT...LON 3130 8914 3117 8913 3114 8885 3133 8884

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	52 min
Apr 25, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry	54 min
Apr 25, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	47 min
Apr 25, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	24 min
Apr 25, 5:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MOB	Greene	37 min
Apr 25, 6:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Perry	58 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.