Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 2004, 5:16 AM CST for Escambia County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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
- Jan 26, 2004, 5:16 AM CST (11:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2004, 6:00 AM CST
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Escambia County, AL
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 4:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
054
WUUS54 KMOB 261116
SVRMOB
ALC053-261200-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
515 AM CST MON JAN 26 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 600 AM CST
* AT 515 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR OSAKA...OR ABOUT
13 MILES WEST OF BREWTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
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 3121 8704 3117 8698 3100 8719 3101 8739
3105 8744 3127 8720
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 4:48 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 27 min |
| Jan 26, 5:12 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 78 min | |
| Jan 26, 5:12 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 78 min | |
| Jan 26, 5:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 39 min |
| Jan 26, 5:57 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington | 48 min |
| Jan 26, 6:11 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 49 min |
| Jan 26, 6:45 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 30 min | |
| Jan 26, 6:45 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 30 min | |
| Jan 26, 9:15 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 45 min | |
| Jan 26, 11:52 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Jan 26, 11:52 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Jan 26, 11:52 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 min | |
| Jan 26, 11:52 AM CST | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 53 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.