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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL

May 17, 2003Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2003, 6:44 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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: May 17, 2003, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2003, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne 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
May 17, 3:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 345 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.3
Supercell composite: 14.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 172344
TORMOB
MSC153-180015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
644 PM CDT SAT MAY 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 639 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EUCUTTA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HIWANNEE...BOICE BY 700 PM CDT

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

LAT...LON 3184 8895 3167 8886 3180 8848 3200 8855

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 12:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	41 min
May 17, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	37 min
May 17, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	29 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.