Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 13, 1993, 5:27 PM CST for Harrison County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 13, 1993, 5:27 PM CST (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 13, 1993, 6:03 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harrison County, MS, Stone County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 889 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 274 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 424 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 132327 RRA SVRMOB MSC047-131-140030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 527 PM CST MON DEC 13 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...HARRISON COUNTY...STONE COUNTY AT 525 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS WESTERN HARRISON AND WESTERN STONE COUNTIES. AS THIS LINE CONTINUES MOVING EASTWARD...IT WILL LIKELY AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF WIGGINS...TEN MILE...SAUCIER...LYMAN AND GULFPORT WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Dec 13, 1:12 PM CST, 4 hours 15 minutes before
ALZ061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080-081-082-132115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 111 PM CST MON DEC 13 1993 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS THE PEARL RIVER INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... AT 1 PM CST RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO PEARL RIVER AND HANCOCK COUNTY. WINDS WERE GUSTING 30 TO 40 MPH AS THE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVED INTO THE AREA. OTHER PATCHES OF RAIN WERE FROM GULFPORT TO LEAKESVILLE. BOTH AREAS OF PRECIPITATION WERE MOVING RAPIDLY NORTHEAST. ANOTHER BAND OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN LOUISIANA ...AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WILL BE AFFECTING COASTAL MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS SYSTEM. STRONG GUSTY SOUTHEAST WINDS AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR FLOODING OF LOW AREAS ALONG THE COASTAL SECTIONS OF HANCOCK AND HARRI&SON COUNTIES THIS EVENING. ASTRONOMICAL HIGH TIDE WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 9 AND 10 PM THIS EVENING ON THE MISSISSIPPI COAST.
Special weather statement, Dec 13, 4:37 PM CST, 50 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-140045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 436 PM CST MON DEC 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI INTO SOUTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AT 430 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERING A GODD PORTION OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM NEAR GROVE HILL ALABAMA...TO CITRONELLE...TO NEAR PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS NOTED ON WEATHER RADAR WERE MOVING NEAR COLUMBIA MISSISSIPPI INTO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY AFFECT PEARL RIVER COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI CAN EXPECT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THEIR AREAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR LOCzAL TELEVISION...RADIO AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND BULLETINS. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Dec 13, 4:42 PM CST, 45 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-140045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED PARA 2... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 436 PM CST MON DEC 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTH MISSISSIPPI INTO SOUTH ALABAMA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... AT 430 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BROAD AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERING A GOOD PORTION OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHERN LOUISIANA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA EXTENDED FROM NEAR GROVE HILL ALABAMA...TO CITRONELLE...TO NEAR PASCAGOULA MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS NOTED ON WEATHER RADAR EXTENDED FROM NEAR COLUMBIA MISSISSIPPI INTO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY AFFECT PEARL RIVER COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTH MISSISSIPPI. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI CAN EXPECT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINS AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THEIR AREAS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION...RADIO AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND BULLETINS. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
Special weather statement, Dec 13, 4:58 PM CST, 29 minutes before
MSZ075>082-LAZ501-ALZ501-140030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 457 PM CST MON DEC 13 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS INTENSIFYING ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA BORDER... ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE COASTAL WATERS FROM GULFPORT WESTWARD... AT 455 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTOMS MOVING ACROSS THE LOUISIANA BORDER UNTO HANCOCK AND PEARL RIVER COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAINS. THESE STORMS EXTENDED SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND WILL AFFECT THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL WATERS AS THEY MOVE EASTWARD OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. < THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI INTO SOUTHWEST ALABAMA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. CONTINUE TO MONITOR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION...RADIO AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND BULLETINS. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
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.