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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2004, 2:06 PM CDT for Perry County, Mississippi. 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
- May 31, 2004, 2:06 PM CDT (19:06 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2004, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Perry County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 1274 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -64 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 701 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
643 WUUS54 KMOB 311906 SVRMOB MSC111-311945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 207 PM CDT MON MAY 31 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 245 PM CDT * AT 203 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JANICE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF NEW AUGUSTA...AND MOVING EAST AT 45 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 3108 8907 3093 8901 3098 8884 3115 8889 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 13 hr |
| May 31, 11:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 41 min |
| May 31, 2:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 27 min |
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.