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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL

January 26, 2004Escambia County, Florida; Escambia County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 2004, 4:48 AM CST for Escambia County, Florida; Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 27 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: Jan 26, 2004, 4:48 AM CST (10:48 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 2004, 5:15 AM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Escambia County, AL, Escambia County, FL

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 26, 4:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

491 
WUUS54 KMOB 261048
SVRMOB
ALC053-FLC033-261115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
447 AM CST MON JAN 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST FLORIDA
   
* UNTIL 515 AM CST

* AT 445 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  NOKOMIS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES EAST OF BAY MINETTE...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. IF A TORNADO 
IS SPOTTED... ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY 
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3109 8736 3105 8731 3093 8751 3085 8761
          3101 8759 3105 8757

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 26, 6:11 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Escambia	49 min
Jan 26, 5:12 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		78 min
Jan 26, 5:12 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		78 min
Jan 26, 5:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	44 min
Jan 26, 5:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	39 min
Jan 26, 5:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Conecuh, Covington	48 min
Jan 26, 6:45 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		30 min
Jan 26, 6:45 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		30 min
Jan 26, 9:15 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		45 min
Jan 26, 11:52 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		53 min
Jan 26, 11:52 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		53 min
Jan 26, 11:52 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		53 min
Jan 26, 11:52 AM CST	Special Marine Warning	MOB		53 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.