Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2004, 2:54 PM CDT for Conecuh County, Alabama. It was in force for 51 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, 2:54 PM CDT (19:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2004, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Conecuh County, AL
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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 161954
SVRMOB
ALC035-162045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
253 PM CDT FRI JUL 16 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 345 PM CDT
* AT 252 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 15
MILES NORTH OF MONROEVILLE TO MONROEVILLE TO 17 MILES SOUTH OF
MONROEVILLE...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
REPTON AND BERMUDA BY 300 PM CDT
RANGE AND NICHBURG BY 305 PM CDT
LENOX AND BELLEVILLE BY 310 PM CDT
I65 AND CR 6 AND FAIRNELSON BY 315 PM CDT
THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
LAT...LON 3157 8689 3153 8684 3153 8670 3145 8670
3144 8667 3138 8667 3129 8671 3131 8737
3136 8734 3147 8718 3165 8712 3176 8693
$$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, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 26 min |
| Jul 16, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 64 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.