Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 17, 1992, 2:38 AM CST for Hancock County, Harrison County, Mississippi. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 1992, 2:38 AM CST (08:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 17, 1992, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 44 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
- 13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 170839 SVRMOB MSC045-047-170945- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 238 AM CST MON FEB 17 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...SOUTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY...SOUTHERN HARRISON COUNTY AT 130 AM CST WEATHER SERVICE RADARS SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE BORGNE MOVING ENTERING INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HANCOCK COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
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, Feb 17, 2:16 AM CST, 22 minutes before
ALZ013-170915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 215 AM CST MON FEB 17 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INLAND OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 210 AM CST MOBILE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED A WARNING EARLIER HAS MOVED INLAND AND BECOME DISORGANIZED. THE STRONGER STORMS ARE NOW SCATTERED OVER THE INTERIOR SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE...BUT PERSONS NEAR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. MOTORIST SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STREET FLOODING IN AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL.
Special weather statement, Feb 17, 2:19 AM CST, 19 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ013-014-170915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 215 AM CST MON FEB 17 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVE INLAND OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 210 AM CST MOBILE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED A WARNING EARLIER HAS MOVED INLAND AND BECOME DISORGANIZED. THE STRONGER STORMS ARE NOW SCATTERED OVER THE INTERIOR SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED TO THIS OFFICE...BUT PERSONS NEAR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECT STRONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. MOTORIST SHOULD BE ALERT FOR STREET FLOODING IN AREAS THAT H*AVE RECEIVED HEAVY RAINFALL.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 1:18 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Jackson | 57 min |
| Feb 17, 3:48 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Jackson | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.