Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 19, 1988, 4:50 PM CST for Forrest County, Lamar County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 1988, 4:50 PM CST (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 1988, 5:30 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Forrest County, MS, Lamar County, MS
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1224 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 660 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 349 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMOB 192250
SVRMOB
MSC035-073-192330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
450 PM CST TUE JAN 19 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
...FORREST...LAMAR
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF LUMBERTON
MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS WAS LIKELY PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF
50 MILES AN HOUR AND HAIL. THE STORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH
PURVIS IN THE NEXT 20 MINUTES AND NEAR HATTIESBURG IN THE NEXT
1/2 HOUR.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 12:22 PM CST, 4 hours 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1220 PM CST TUE JAN 19 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH #5 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 600 PM CST... AT
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 2:15 PM CST, 2 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 215 PM CST TUE JAN 19 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH #5 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 600 PM CST... AT 210 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MERIDIAN TO MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI THEN EXTENDING SOUTHWESTWARD INTO LOUISIANA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. PATCHES OF RAIN WERE SCATTERED OVER THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH HAVE ALREADY BEEN OBSERVED AT THE MOBILE AIRPORT AND WINDY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE ALONG THE COASTAL SECTIONS UNTIL THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVES EAST OF THE COAST THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 4:24 PM CST, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 425 PM CST TUE JAN 19 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH #7 IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND ALL OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL 1000 PM CST... ...TORNADO WATCH #5 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL 600 PM CST... AT 420 PM RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM MERIDIAN TO HATTIESBURG MISSISSIPPI AND EXTENDING SOUTHWESTWARD INTO LOUISIANA. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER WILL CONTINUE FOR SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA UNTIL THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVES THROUGH THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAINFALL...AND LARGE HAIL.
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.