Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 371, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 17, 1995, 8:19 PM CST for George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 17, 1995, 8:19 PM CST (02:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 17, 1995, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County George County, MS
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 612 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 285 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 17, 7:28 PM CST, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 17, 7:28 PM CST, 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESOSCALE UPDATE... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 728 PM CST SUN DEC 17 1995 LINE OF TRW HAS DEVELOPED A LEWP OVER GREENE AND GEORGE COUNTIES MS AND IS ADVANCING RAPIDLY INTO WASHINGTON AND MOBILE COUNTIES AL. IR SAT LOOP TREND HAS BEEN FOR WARMING TOPS UNTIL 00Z WHEN TOPS HAVE COOLED AGAIN IN RESPONSE TO AXIS OF MAXIMUM MOISTURE CONVERGENCE PER 00Z MAP DATA AND NEAR ZONE OF COOLING ALOFT IN RUC DATA. 00Z MAP PRES FALLS INDICATE A CONTINUED EASTWARD MOVEMENT ALONG THETA-E AXIS ALONG THE COAST. DESPITE IR SAT INDICATING COOLING TOPS...AIR MASS IS STABILIZING WITH LI`S BETWEEN -1 AND -2 AND TRWS WILL WEAKEN AS THEY CONTINUE EWD AWAY FROM AXIS OF MAX MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. SUGGEST UPDATE WRN COUNTIES WITH RAIN ENDING LATER TONIGHT AND REMOVE MENTION OF SEVERE. MAY NEED TO LOWER TEMPS A CAT AS TEMPS ARE AT OR NEAR LOWS NOW. DRE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 17, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 55 min |
| Dec 17, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 55 min |
| Dec 17, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 67 min |
| Dec 18, 2:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 57 min |
| Dec 18, 2:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 57 min |
| Dec 18, 3:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 3:43 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Stone | 6 hr |
| Dec 18, 4:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 38 min |
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.