Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1994, 2:07 PM CDT for Harrison County, Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 17, 1994, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 1994, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 2055 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 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 171908 SVRMOB MSC047-059-172015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 207 PM CDT FRI JUN 17 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...HARRISON COUNTY...JACKSON COUNTY AT 105 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE HARRISON AND JACKSON COUNTY LINE NORTH OF OCEAN SPRINGS AND BILOXI. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 10 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, Jun 17, 11:55 AM CDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
FLZ001>010-012-171730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENSACOLA FL 1140 APM CDT FRI JUN 17 1994 1130 AM CDT...RAIN COVERED MOST NORTHWEST FLORIDA FROM ESCAMBIA COUNTY IN THE WEST TO THE APALACHICOLA RIVER TO THE EAST...AND SOUTH 100 MILES INTO THE GULF. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS INDICATING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WERE NUMEROUS...EAST TO WEST...THROUGH THE CENTRAL FLORIDA PANHANDLE. SINCE THE GROUND IS ALREADY WET AND ALMOST SATURATED FROM EARLIER RAINS ...THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW AREAS ALONG WITH AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID FLOODED STREETS AND NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS THESE ROADWAYS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY SOUTH TOWARD THE COASTLINE.
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.