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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL

May 17, 2003Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2003, 7:14 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. 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: May 17, 2003, 7:14 PM CDT (00:14 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2003, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 129 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
WFUS54 KMOB 180014
TORMOB
MSC153-180100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM CDT

* AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER STRENGTHFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  WOODWARDS...WAYNESBORO BY 725 PM CDT
  BOICE BY 730 PM CDT
  DENHAM BY 735 PM CDT
  GRETNA BY 740 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 3166 8893 3151 8892 3165 8847 3189 8848
          3175 8874

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 8:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene, Wayne	47 min
May 17, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry	24 min
May 17, 9:26 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MOB	Greene, Wayne	64 min
May 17, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	37 min
May 17, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	38 min
May 18, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George	23 min
May 18, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry	34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.