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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Mobile, AL

June 26, 2004Butler County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2004, 3:05 PM CDT for Butler County, Alabama. It was in force for 25 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, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Butler County, AL

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.

932 
WUUS54 KMOB 262005
SVRMOB
ALC013-262030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
306 PM CDT SAT JUN 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 302 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  MONTERY...OR ABOUT 31 MILES EAST OF CAMDEN...AND MOVING EAST AT 30
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY AT 320 PM CDT
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY AT 330 PM 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 3170 8645 3176 8673 3181 8689 3197 8688
          3196 8645

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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, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWilcox11 min
Jun 26, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBCrenshaw41 min

Nearby

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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.