Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1992, 4:44 AM CDT for Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1992, 4:44 AM CDT (09:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1992, 5:19 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jackson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 1522 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 150945 SVRMOB MSC059-151030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 444 AM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...EASTERN JACKSON COUNTY AT 440 JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE ERECEIVED A REPORT OF 70 MPH WINDS AND LARGE HAIL AT VAN CLEAVE. RADAR SHOWED THIS STORM MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 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, Jun 14, 11:30 PM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before
MSZ014-013-150530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1130PM CDT SUN JUN 14 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 360 IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM CDT FOR PEARL RIVER...PERRY...STONE...AND HANCOCK COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THIS INCLUDES THE COASTAL WATERS OF HANCOCK COUNTY... AT 1125 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NO PRECIPITATION IN THE WATCH AREA OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED. OTHER WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWS A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST THROUGH NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI AND NORTH LOUISIANA. REMEMBER A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 1:14 AM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
ALZ013-016-MSZ014-013-150815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 113 AM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 360 UNTIL 4 AM CDT FOR PERSONS IN PEARL RIVER...PERRY...STONE AND HANCOCK COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI. AT 110 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...SOME STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE FROM WEST OF MERIDIAN TO MCCOMB MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. IF THE STORMS MAINTAIN THEIR PRESENT COURSE AND SPEED IT WILL BE AFTER 3 AM CDT WHEN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES ARE AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AXREA. REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFTEY SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED OR SEVERE WEATHER SIGHTED.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 2:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
ALZ013-016-MSZ014-013-150845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 210 AM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 360 UNTIL 4 AM CDT FOR PERSONS IN PEARL RIVER...PERRY...STONE AND HANCOCK COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI. AT 200 AM CDT RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST WEST OF MERIDIAN TO COLUMBIA MISSISSIPPI TO JUST NORTH OF AMITE LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. IF THE STORMS MAINTAIN THEIR PRESENT COURSE AND SPEED IT WILL BE AFTER 3 AM CDT WHEN THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES ARE AFFECTED BY THE THUNDERSTORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN 8OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA. REMAIN ALERT AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFTEY SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED OR SEVERE WEATHER SIGHTED.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 3:08 AM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-150845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 300 AM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 360 UNTIL 4 AM CDT FOR PERSONS IN PEARL RIVER...PERRY...STONE AND HANCOCK COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI. AT 30% AM CDT RADAR SHOWED THE LEADING EDGE OF AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST EAST OF MERIDIAN TO NEAR HATTIESBURG TO NEAR BOGALUSA LOUISIANA. MOVEMENT CONTINUES SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG AND JUST INLAND FROM HANCOCK COUNTY TO NEAR MOBILE. THESE WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE LINE OF STRONGER STORMS ARE MOVING INTO PEARL RIVER COUNTY AND WILL BE ACCOMPAINED BY STRzONG GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR STATEMENT AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 4:01 AM CDT, 43 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-151100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 400 AM CDT MON JUN 15 1992 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH EXPIRED AT 4 AM FOR STONE...PERRY... HANCOCK AND PEARL RIVER COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI. AT 4 AM MOBILE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MILLRY ALABAMA TO MCLAIN TO BIXOLI MISSISSIPPI. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. AN AREA OF RAIN AND THUNDERSHOWERS 40 TO 60 MILES WEST OF THE THUNDERSTORMS. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM NEAR BIXOLI TO MOBILE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 15 MPH. POPULARVILLE MISSISSIPPI REPORTED GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WHEN THE STORMS PASSED OVER...BUT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS NOTED. RESIDENTS OF GREENE...GEORGE...STONE...HARRISON AND JACKSON COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI CAN EXPECT WINDS GUSTING 35 TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR AS THE STORMS MOVE SOUTHEAST. THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS THAT POPPED UP AROUND MOBILE IN THE LAST HOUR WERE PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN IN A FEW LOCATIONS NORTH OF THE AIRPORT. THE WEATHER SERVICE AT BATES FIELD ONLY RECEIVED .03 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 3 AND 4 AM. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO THIS ST;ATION FOR LATER STATEMENT AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS IF NEEDED.
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.