Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 19, 2004, 5:23 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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
- Oct 19, 2004, 5:23 PM CDT (22:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2004, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wilcox County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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
- 1233 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 192223 SVRMOB ALC131-192300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 523 PM CDT TUE OCT 19 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ANNE MARIE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF CAMDEN...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MILLERS FERRY AND ROCKWEST BY 535 PM CDT CANTON BEND BY 540 PM CDT BOYKIN AND CAMDEN BY 545 PM CDT 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 3215 8759 3197 8759 3195 8709 3218 8710 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 7:20 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 40 min |
| Oct 19, 7:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 32 min |
| Oct 19, 10:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 60 min |
| Oct 19, 5:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 11 min |
| Oct 19, 6:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Monroe, Wilcox | 37 min |
| Oct 19, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Monroe | 32 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.