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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Mobile, AL

January 26, 2004Conecuh County, Covington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 2004, 5:57 AM CST for Conecuh County, Covington County, Alabama. It was in force for 48 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, 5:57 AM CST (11:57 UTC)
Expired: Jan 26, 2004, 6:45 AM CST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Conecuh County, AL, Covington 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 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

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The text

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

898 
WUUS54 KMOB 261157
SVRMOB
ALC035-039-261245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  COVINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
  CONECUH COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 645 AM CST

* AT 554 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR US 29 AND CR
  43...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF BREWTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LIBERTYVILLE BY 625 AM CST

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 3138 8693 3105 8687 3122 8631 3147 8641

$$

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, 5:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Baldwin	39 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.