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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2004, 6:47 PM CDT for Baldwin County, Alabama. It was in force for 28 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 25, 2004, 6:47 PM CDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Baldwin County, AL
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 874 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
848
WUUS54 KMOB 252347
SVRMOB
ALC003-260015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
645 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 645 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS
IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM POINT CLEAR TO PALMETTO BEACH...OR ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF DAUPHIN ISLAND TO 16 MILES
EAST OF DAUPHIN ISLAND...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING REPLACES THE TORNADO WARNING EXPIRING FOR
BALDWIN COUNTY.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
MARLOW BY 650 PM CDT
CLAY CITY AND OAK BY 655 PM CDT
SILVERHILL BY 700 PM CDT
ROBERTSDALE AND SUMMERDALE BY 705 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 3036 8783 3041 8792 3050 8794 3064 8752
3034 8745 3028 8757 3026 8779
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 45 min | |
| Jun 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 25, 5:29 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 25, 5:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 27 min |
| Jun 25, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 15 min |
| Jun 25, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 25 min |
| Jun 25, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 22 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.