Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2004, 9:33 PM CDT for Choctaw County, Alabama; Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 42 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
- Apr 7, 2004, 9:33 PM CDT (02:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2004, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 6:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 1040 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
254
WUUS54 KMOB 080233
SVRMOB
ALC023-MSC153-080315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
932 PM CDT WED APR 7 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
* UNTIL 1015 PM CDT
* AT 928 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BOICE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF
WAYNESBORO...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
GRETNA BY 950 PM CDT
ISNEY BY 955 PM CDT
AQUILLA BY 1005 PM CDT
SILAS AND BOLINGER BY 1015 PM CDT
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 3183 8875 3169 8870 3171 8826 3183 8823
3184 8851
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 26 min |
| Apr 7, 8:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Apr 7, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 42 min |
| Apr 7, 11:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 79 min | |
| Apr 8, 8:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler | 41 min |
| Apr 8, 8:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 29 min |
| Apr 8, 9:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 39 min |
| Apr 8, 9:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 12 min |
| Apr 7, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 2004Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 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.