Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1994, 4:56 PM CDT for Pearl River County, Mississippi. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1994, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1994, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pearl River County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 59 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
- 1593 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -68 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 012157 RRA SVRMOB MSC109-012300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 456 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI ...PEARL.RIVER COUNTY AT 455 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PEARL RIVER COUNTY MISSISSIPPI. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE 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, Jul 1, 2:39 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
ALZ052-053-055-056-059-061>064-501-MSZ075>082-LAZ501-012100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 240 PM CDT FRI JUL 1 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHWEST ALABAMA... AT 230 PM...RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER 20 MILES NORTH OF MOBILE...JUST NORTH AND SOUTH OF CHATOM AND NEAR MONROEVILLE. THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OCCURRING IN SOUTHERN GREEN AND PERRY COUNTIES IN MISSISSIPPI. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DRIFTING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF STRONG WINDS...SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
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.