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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Mobile, AL
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 5:20 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 3:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 4:01 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Washington | 14 min |
| Nov 24, 4:13 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 4:19 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 41 min |
| Nov 24, 4:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 4:44 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 31 min |
| Nov 24, 5:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 5:28 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Clarke, Washington, Wilcox | 32 min |
| Nov 24, 6:00 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 30 min |
| Nov 24, 6:07 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 23 min |
| Nov 24, 6:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Monroe | 44 min |
| Nov 24, 6:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 27 min |
| Nov 24, 6:49 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 41 min |
| Nov 24, 6:53 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Nov 24, 6:53 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Nov 24, 7:06 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 24 min |
| Nov 24, 7:35 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 55 min |
| Nov 24, 7:47 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 58 min |
| Nov 24, 8:16 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 29 min |
| Nov 24, 8:38 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 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.