Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2004, 11:16 AM CDT for Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama; Greene County, Mississippi. 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
- Jun 1, 2004, 11:16 AM CDT (16:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2004, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Greene County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 2433 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 8.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
087
WUUS54 KMOB 011616
SVRMOB
ALC097-129-MSC041-011700-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1116 AM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL NOON CDT
* AT 1105 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LEAKESVILLE WAS MOVING
EAST AT 45 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
DEER PARK BY 1125 AM CDT
CITRONELLE BY 1130 AM CDT
MALCOLM AND FAIRFORD BY 1145 AM 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 3119 8856 3101 8870 3099 8798 3136 8799
3127 8842
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 25 min |
| Jun 1, 10:53 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 37 min | |
| Jun 1, 10:55 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 35 min |
| Jun 1, 12:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 33 min |
| Jun 1, 12:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Jun 1, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Escambia | 52 min |
| Jun 1, 1:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 32 min | |
| Jun 1, 2:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 32 min | |
| Jun 1, 2:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 36 min | |
| Jun 1, 11:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 33 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.