Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1994, 7:42 PM CDT for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1994, 7:42 PM CDT (00:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1994, 8:18 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 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
- 3545 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 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 100048 RRA SVRMOB MSC111-100145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 742 PM CDT THU JUN 9 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...PERRY COUNTY AT 742 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PERRY COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER AS IT MOVED THROUGH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI EARLIER THIS EVENING. 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, Jun 9, 6:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-501-MSZ075>082-LAZ-100030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 626 PM CDT THU JUN 9 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 620 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY AND NORTHERN BALDWIN COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. LATER THIS EVENING A GUST FRONT THAT IS CURRENTLY MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOPE ALONG THIS FRONT. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI SHOULD BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jun 9, 7:41 PM CDT, 1 minute before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-501-MSZ075>082-LAZ-100140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 738 PM CDT THU JUN 9 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR ALL COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI AND SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 730 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF A LINE FROM BREWTON ALABAMA IN ESCAMBIA COUNTY TO CITRONELLE IN MOBILE COUNTY TO LUMBERTON IN PEARL RIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN ESCAMBIA AND CONECUH COUNTIES OF SOUTHWEST ALABAMA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST UPDATES CONCERNING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION.
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.