Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2004, 1:19 PM CDT for Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 26 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
- Jul 16, 2004, 1:19 PM CDT (18:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2004, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Washington County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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 nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 1409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMOB 161819
SVRMOB
ALC129-161845-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
118 PM CDT FRI JUL 16 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 145 PM CDT
* AT 113 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS OF 60
MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CHATOM...OR ABOUT OVER
CHATOM...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
WAGARVILLE AND CORTELYOU BY 130 PM CDT
PRESTWICK AND LEROY BY 135 PM CDT
CARSON BY 140 PM CDT
IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS...POSSIBLY LARGE
HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY
SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
LAT...LON 3155 8800 3153 8794 3148 8791 3143 8793
3140 8791 3128 8796 3127 8802 3131 8839
3151 8837 3159 8803
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 38 min |
| Jul 15, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 34 min |
| Jul 15, 7:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Monroe | 53 min |
| Jul 15, 7:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 31 min |
| Jul 15, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 45 min |
| Jul 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 9:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 79 min | |
| Jul 15, 10:55 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 110 min | |
| Jul 15, 11:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jul 16, 2:23 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 37 min | |
| Jul 16, 2:50 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Jul 16, 2:50 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Jul 16, 3:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 45 min | |
| Jul 16, 3:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 45 min | |
| Jul 16, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 64 min |
| Jul 16, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 51 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.