Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1993, 3:50 PM CDT for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1993, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1993, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Greene County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1043 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMOB 242051 RRA SVRMOB MSC041-242130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 350 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHWESTERN GREENE COUNTY AT 345 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWNS OF SAND HILL AND AVERA. LITTLE MOVEMENT WAS INDICATED. 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, Jul 24, 3:04 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ013-014-242100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 303 PM CDT SAT JUL 24 1993 AT 300 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL CLUSTERS OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER NORTHERN HARRISON AND IN STONE COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE WEST. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS... AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. THE RAINFALL WILL LIKELY FLOOD ROADS AND STREETS BRIEFLY AND CAUSE SMALL STREAMS TO RISE TO NEAR BANKFULL. THE RAINFALL WILL BE ESPECIALLY SIGNIFICANT IN STONE COUNTY WHERE AN ESTIMATED 1 TO 2 INCHES FELL DURING THE MORNING. MOTORISTS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND SLOW DOWN. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TO DEVELOP OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON. RESIDENTS ARE REMINDED T(HAT LIGHTNING IS THE STORMS WORST KILLER. GO INDOORS OR GET INTO A VEHICHLE IF A THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPS NEAR YOU.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.