Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1993, 6:36 PM CDT for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 29, 1993, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 1993, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1800 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 816 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 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 292335 RRA SVRMOB MSC111-300015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 636 PM CDT THU JUL 29 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...WESTERN PERRY COUNTY AT 635 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR JANICE IN SOUTHWEST PERRY COUNTY NORTH TO NEAR RUNNELSTOWN IN NORTHWEST PERRY COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE SLOWLY DRIFTING SOUTHWEST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
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 29, 5:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-300015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 514 PM CDT THU JUL 29 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN CLARKE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 510 PM CDT MOBILE RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA. AN AREA OF STRONG STORMS EXTENDED NORTHWEST FROM NORTH MOBILE COUNTY NEAR GULFCREST INTO GREENE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI TO NEAR LEAKESVILLE. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS ON THE CLARKE AND MONROE COUNTY LINES NEAR CLAIBORNE. THESE STORMS SHOWED VERY LITTLE MOVEMENT AND WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS CONCERNING THESE STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jul 29, 6:15 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
ALZ013-015-016-MSZ014-013-300115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 615 PM CDT THU JUL 29 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA COUNTIES... AT 610 PM CDT MOBILE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH GREEN AND NORTH GEORGE COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...EXTENDING WEST FROM NEAR MERRILL AND LEAKESVILLE INTO PERRY COUNTY AND THEN EXTENDING NORTHWEST FROM NEAR LEAF...ACROSS MCLAIN AND BEAUMONT...TO NEAR RICHTON. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED IN NORTH CENTRAL MOBILE COUNTY NEAR GULFCREST AND IN NORTH BALDWIN COUNTY AND WEST ESCAMBIA COUNTY ALL NEAR MCCULLOUGH...HUXFORD...AND TENSAW. THESE STORMS HAD A SLIGHT DRIFT TO THE SOUTH AND CAN BE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPID CHANGES IN THE WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF NECESSARY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNINGS.
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.