Alert archive / Alabama / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2004, 7:29 PM CDT for Crenshaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 31 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
- Jul 15, 2004, 7:29 PM CDT (00:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2004, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Crenshaw 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 894 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMOB 160029
SVRMOB
ALC041-160100-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
729 PM CDT THU JUL 15 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN CRENSHAW COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ALABAMA
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 723 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED JUST
NORTH OF DOZIER...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LUVERNE...AND
MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 12 MPH.
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 3161 8641 3156 8652 3153 8641 3146 8640
3154 8630 3154 8628 3147 8628 3145 8626
3145 8620 3154 8619
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 38 min |
| Jul 15, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 34 min |
| Jul 15, 7:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Monroe | 53 min |
| Jul 15, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 45 min |
| Jul 15, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wilcox | 30 min |
| Jul 15, 9:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 79 min | |
| Jul 15, 10:55 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 110 min | |
| Jul 15, 11:42 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Jul 16, 2:23 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 37 min | |
| Jul 16, 2:50 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Jul 16, 2:50 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Jul 16, 3:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 45 min | |
| Jul 16, 3:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 45 min | |
| Jul 16, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Washington | 26 min |
| Jul 16, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Monroe, Wilcox | 64 min |
| Jul 16, 2:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh | 51 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.