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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL

January 26, 2004Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 2004, 5:51 AM CST for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 39 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, 5:51 AM CST (11:51 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 2004, 6:30 AM CST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baldwin 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 121 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

714 
WUUS54 KMOB 261151
SVRMOB
ALC003-261230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
551 AM CST MON JAN 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA

* UNTIL 630 AM CST

* AT 549 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF FORT
  MORGAN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DAUPHIN ISLAND...AND MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 55 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 3015 8817 3002 8802 3027 8770 3043 8788

$$

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, 5:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Escambia	44 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.