Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 17, 1994, 9:28 AM CST for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 17, 1994, 9:28 AM CST (15:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 17, 1994, 10:30 AM CST
- In force
- 62 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, 3.5 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
- 221 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 505 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 452 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 589 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMOB 171535 RRA SVRMOB MSC111-171630- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 928 AM CST MON JAN 17 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 AM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...PERRY COUNTY AT 935 AM CST A SHORT LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR OVER NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 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, Jan 17, 8:55 AM CST, 33 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-171645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 848 AM CST MON JAN 17 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 945 AM CST A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS NEAR MILLRY IN NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY ALABAMA TO NEAR GULFPORT MISSISSIPPI. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH WHILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AS HIGH AS 50 MPH...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN...AS THEY MOVE THROUGH SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA THIS MORNING. A SECOND LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR SELMA ALABAMA TO BATON ROUGE LOUISANA AND WAS MOVING INTO THE NORTHWESTERN CORNERS OF PEARL RIVER AND PERRY COUNTIES OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THIS LINE WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH WH^ILE THE INDIVIDUAL STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCE WIND GUST AS HAIGH AS 50 MPH...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN.
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.