Severe Thunderstorm Warning 377, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Dec 18, 1995, 2:03 PM CST (20:03 UTC)

Expired

Dec 18, 1995, 3:00 PM CST

In force

57 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

County Greene County, MS

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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MSC041-182100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
203 PM CST MON DEC 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...GREENE COUNTY
 
AT 201 PM...NWS DOPPLER RADAR IN MOBILE INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN CENTRAL GREENE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST
OF LEAKESVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL
LIKELY ENTER NORTHWEST WASHINGTON CO ALABAMA BY 3 PM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Dec 18, 12:51 PM CST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...MESOSCALE UPDATE...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1250 PM CST MON DEC 18 1995

18Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATES THAT A WARM FRONT HAS PUSHED NORTHWARD INTO
LA/MS/AL AND LIES ALONG A POE...LFT LINE AND JUST NORTH OF GPT AND MOB.
KMOB REFLECTIVITY DATA ALSO INDICATES A BOUNDARY IN THIS VICINITY WITH
THE BULK OF THE STRONGER STORMS NORTH OF THE BOUNDARY.  THE POSITION
OF THE WARM FRONT WILL LIMIT HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE COASTAL COUNTIES
FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND WILL SWITCH THE FOCUS TO THE
INLAND COUNTIES.  REGARDLESS OF THE WARM FRONTAL POSITION...COLD FRONT
AND WEAK PREFRONTAL TROF WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COASTAL COUNTIES
TONIGHT AND MAINTAIN FFW THREAT.

DRE

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.