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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Mobile, AL

November 24, 2004Mobile County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 24, 2004, 5:57 AM CST for Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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
Nov 24, 2004, 5:57 AM CST (11:57 UTC)
Expired
Nov 24, 2004, 6:30 AM CST
In force
33 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), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Nov 24, 5:20 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 2004-11-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 866 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 00:00Z on 2004-11-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
866 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
805 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
2.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 241200
SVRMOB
ALC097-241230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
556 AM CST WED NOV 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...

  NORTHERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 630 AM CST

* AT 554 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES WEST OF
  GULFCREST...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEAKESVILLE...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CITRONELLE AND SIDNEY BY 605 AM CST
  6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CALVERT BY 625 AM CST

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.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOBILE COUNTY 


LAT...LON 3115 8798 3107 8796 3106 8798 3089 8840
      3094 8838 3108 8844 3113 8834 3115 8833
      3115 8802 3117 8799

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 24, 3:29 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBWashington31 min
Nov 24, 4:01 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBWashington14 min
Nov 24, 4:13 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBClarke32 min
Nov 24, 4:19 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWashington41 min
Nov 24, 4:29 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBChoctaw, Clarke31 min
Nov 24, 4:44 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBClarke, Wilcox31 min
Nov 24, 5:16 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBClarke, Wilcox44 min
Nov 24, 5:28 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBClarke, Washington, Wilcox32 min
Nov 24, 6:00 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile30 min
Nov 24, 6:07 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBMobile23 min
Nov 24, 6:16 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBMonroe44 min
Nov 24, 6:33 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBMobile27 min
Nov 24, 6:49 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin41 min
Nov 24, 6:53 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Nov 24, 6:53 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr
Nov 24, 7:06 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBMobile24 min
Nov 24, 7:35 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin55 min
Nov 24, 7:47 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBBaldwin, Mobile58 min
Nov 24, 8:16 AM CSTTornado WarningMOBCovington29 min
Nov 24, 8:38 AM CSTSpecial Marine WarningMOB2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.