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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Mobile, AL

June 26, 2004Wilcox County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2004, 2:34 PM CDT for Wilcox County, Alabama. It was in force for 11 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 26, 2004, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2004, 2:45 PM CDT
In force
11 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilcox County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 132 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2004-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 193 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2004-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
193 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
941 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
32 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.

749 
WUUS54 KMOB 261934 CCA
SVRMOB
ALC131-261945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORECTED 3RD PARA...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
230 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WILCOX COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA

* UNTIL 245 PM CDT

* AT 222 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS AS HIGH AS 60 MPH. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A  
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF FURMAN TO FURMAN TO SNOW
  HILL. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS RURAL NORTHEAT WILCOX COUNTY.

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 3198 8687 3198 8692 3192 8692 3197 8718
          3204 8718 3205 8701 3206 8699 3206 8687

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 7:20 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB115 min
Jun 25, 7:22 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB113 min
Jun 25, 7:22 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB113 min
Jun 26, 2:20 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB85 min
Jun 26, 2:20 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMOB85 min
Jun 26, 2:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox15 min
Jun 26, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBButler25 min
Jun 26, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCrenshaw41 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.