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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Mobile, AL

April 25, 2003Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 45 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, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mobile County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 2144 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1244 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 5.4

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The text

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

493 
WFUS54 KMOB 260015
TORMOB
ALC097-260100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 710 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF CITRONELLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CITRONELLE BY 720 PM CDT 
  SIDNEY BY 725 PM CDT
  PINEOLA...TURNERVILLE BY 735 PM CDT
  BUCKS...CHASTANG BY 740 PM CDT
  FORT STODDARD BY 745 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 3113 8838 3101 8837 3094 8799 3111 8797

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 25, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler	23 min
Apr 25, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	50 min
Apr 25, 7:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Monroe	25 min
Apr 25, 7:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	52 min
Apr 25, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Butler	46 min
Apr 25, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	35 min
Apr 25, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Crenshaw	45 min
Apr 25, 8:26 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MOB		2 hr
Apr 25, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin, Mobile	47 min
Apr 25, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	46 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.