Alert archive / Alabama / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2004, 6:20 PM CDT for Baldwin 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 25, 2004, 6:20 PM CDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 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), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:23 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 129 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.
340
WFUS54 KMOB 252320
TORMOB
ALC003-252345-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
619 PM CDT FRI JUN 25 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
BALDWIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 615 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST
OF FORT MORGAN...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WARNING IS
CURRENTLY ALSO IN EFFECT FOR DAUPHIN ISLAND THROUGH 630 PM.
* THE TORNADO PRODUCING STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
FORT MORGAN BY 625 PM CDT
PALMETTO BEACH AND GASQUE BY 645 PM CDT
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...ABANDON VEHICLES AND
MOBILE HOMES AND SEEK A REINFORCED SHELTER. MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR CLOSET. COVER YOUR BODY WITH BLANKETS OR PILLOWS.
IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FRIDAY EVENING FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND THE NORTHWEST
FLORIDA PANHANDLE.
LAT...LON 3026 8792 3024 8791 3025 8785 3027 8777
3029 8775 3034 8782 3036 8769 3026 8769
3024 8777 3023 8800
$$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, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 min |
| Jun 25, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 22 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.