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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Mobile, AL

June 1, 2004Baldwin County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2004, 12:12 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 33 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, 12:12 PM CDT (17:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2004, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 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
Jun 1, 9:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 613 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.4

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The text

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

454 
WUUS54 KMOB 011712
SVRMOB
ALC003-011745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1212 PM CDT TUE JUN 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1245 PM CDT

* AT 1209 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF BALL SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LATHAM TO
  7 MILES NORTHWEST OF VAUGHN TO 9 MILES WEST OF VAUGHN...OR ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 22 MILES NORTHWEST OF BAY MINETTE TO 18 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF BAY MINETTE TO 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF BAY MINETTE...AND
  MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  VAUGHN AND TENSAW BY 1230 PM CDT
  BLACKSHER AND LITTLE RIVER BY 1240 PM CDT
  RABUN AND REDTOWN BY 1245 PM CDT

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

LAT...LON 3124 8762 3102 8762 3103 8797 3107 8793
          3110 8797 3117 8793 3122 8785 3128 8771

$$

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, 11:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile, Washington	44 min
Jun 1, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Mobile	35 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

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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.