Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1994, 6:28 PM CDT for Harrison County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 12, 1994, 6:28 PM CDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1994, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harrison County, MS, Stone County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 7:20 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Woolmarket, MS | Twenty mobile homes were totally destroyed and four brick homes were partially destroyed. At least four businesses were damaged. The two deaths and the fifteen injuries all occurred in mobile homes. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. Damage wa |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
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
- 970 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 527 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMOB 122327 SVRMOB MSC047-131-130015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 628 PM CDT TUE APR 12 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY...SOUTHERN STONE COUNTY AT 625 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH HARRISON COUNTY NEAR DE SOTO AND SOUTHEAST STONE COUNTY JUST EAST OF MCHENRY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND IS MOVING TO THE EAST...NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO NORTHWEST CORNER OF JACKSON COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. 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 SJTAY 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, Apr 12, 3:17 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
MSZ077-080-122115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 317 PM CDT TUE APR 12 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... AT 315 PM THE MOBILE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CLUSTER CENTERED ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF PICAYUNE MISSISSIPPI. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE ALONG THE PEARL-RIVER AND HANCOCK COUNTY LINE DURING THE NEXT HOUR. : RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN PEARL-RIVER AND NORTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY CAN EXPECT GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAINFALL AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS.
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 4:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-ALZ501-LAZ501-122315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 418 PM CDT TUE APR 12 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTH PERRY COUNTY...NORTH HANCOCK COUNTY AND SOUTH PEARL RIVER COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... AT 415 PM MOBILE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH FORREST COUNTY NEAR HATTIESBURG AND MOVING NORTHEAST INTO NORTH PERRY COUNTY. PERSONS IN OR NEAR THE TOWNS OF RUNNELSTOWN AND RICHTON SHOULD EXPECT HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WITH THIS STORM WITHIN THE HOUR. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTH HANCOCK AND SOUTH PEARL RIVER COUNTIES NEAR PICAYUNE AND MCNEIL. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ALL RESIDENTS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATNING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 5:15 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-ALZ501-LAZ501-130015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 515 PM CDT TUE APR 12 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... AT 510 PM MOBILE WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR POPLARVILLE IN PEARL RIVER COUNTY...NORTHEAST ACROSS FOREST COUNTY AND INTO CENTRAL AND NORTH PERRY COUNTY TO NEAR RICHTON. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST...NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO GREENE AND STONE COUNTIES WITHIN THE HOUR. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED IN CENTRAL AND EAST HANCOCK COUNTY JUST EAST OF PICAYNE AND WAS REPORTED TO HAVE CAUSED CONSIDERABLE WIND DAMAGE TO SEVERAL TRAILERS IN LEE TOWN LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF HANCOCK COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING INTO WEST HARRISON COUNTY AND WILL EFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF SAUCIER AND LYMAN WITHIN THE HOUR. REMEMBER...THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST...NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH AND WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. ALL RESIDENTS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD CONTINUE TO REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATNING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ANY FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNINGS. &
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 6:02 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061-062-063-064-MSZ075-076-077-078-079-080- 081-082-ALZ501-LAZ501-130100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 603 PM CDT TUE APR 12 1994 ...STRONG THUDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI... AT 600 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST HARRISON COUNTY NEAR SAUCIER AND NORTH OF LYMAN. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST...NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTH HARRISON COUNTY AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTH STONE COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. ELSEWHERE...A LINE OF STRONG STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR NEELY IN CENTRAL GREENE COUNTY JUST WEST OF LEAKESVILLE...NORTHEAST ACROSS NORTH GREENE COUNTY AND INTO WAYNE COUNTY OF SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. THIS LINE IS MOVING TO THE EAST...NORTHEAST AS WELL AND WILL BE MOVING INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA WITHIN THE HOUR. ALL RESIDENTS IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATNING WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH OUT THE NIGHT AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR ANY* FURTHER UPDATES OR WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Jackson | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.