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Tornado Warning 37, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 30, 2003, 10:39 PM CDT for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 36 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
- Jun 30, 2003, 10:39 PM CDT (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2003, 11:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Mobile County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
282 WFUS54 KMOB 010339 TORMOB ALC097-010415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1037 PM CDT MON JUN 30 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA * UNTIL 1115 PM CDT * AT 1036 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CODEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BAYOU LA BATRE...CODEN BY 1045 PM CDT DIXON CORNER BY 1050 PM CDT IRVINGTON...ST ELMO BY 1055 PM CDT MOBILE GREYHOUND PARK...I10 AND MCDONALD ROAD BY 1100 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM... ABANDON VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. CALL 1-800-284-9054 TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 3026 8840 3024 8833 3055 8811 3063 8829
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 7:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Jun 30, 7:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Jun 30, 9:03 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Jun 30, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Jun 30, 10:09 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Jun 30, 11:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 46 min |
| Jul 1, 12:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Jul 1, 1:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Jul 1, 2:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 27 min |
| Jul 1, 3:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:18 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 25 min |
| Jul 1, 4:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Jul 1, 4:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 3 hr | |
| Jul 1, 7:20 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 100 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.