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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Feb 21, 2003, 11:29 PM CST for Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 46 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
- Feb 21, 2003, 11:29 PM CST (05:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 12:15 AM CST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Conecuh County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 8:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
146
WFUS54 KMOB 220529
TORMOB
ALC035-220615-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1129 PM CST FRI FEB 21 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 1215 AM CST
* AT 1127 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTH OF LENOX...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
I65 AND CR 6 BY 1135 PM CST
BELLEVILLE BY 1140 PM CST
LOREE...I65 AND US 84 BY 1145 PM CST
CHINA...LYEFFION BY 1150 PM CST
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 3129 8721 3127 8712 3151 8680 3158 8690
3174 8694 3170 8702The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 7:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Escambia | 31 min |
| Feb 21, 7:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe | 42 min |
| Feb 21, 11:16 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Feb 21, 11:16 PM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Feb 21, 11:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Escambia | 41 min |
| Feb 22, 1:20 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Feb 22, 1:34 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 26 min |
| Feb 22, 2:10 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Feb 22, 2:10 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Feb 22, 4:28 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.