Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1996, 6:52 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 1996, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 9, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 151 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
- 496 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Sep 9, 2:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 9, 2:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
225 PM CDT MON SEP 9 1996
SFC FRONT DRAPED FROM UPR MID WEST...NRN LA INTO CTRL TX MAKING
HEADWAY INTO FA. BASE OF UPR TROF PASSING THRU KLIX AS VWP PROFILES
SHOW W/NWRLY FLOW. AS TROF PUSHES E...LIFTING IS GENERATING
SHRA/TSRA ACRS SR MS AND S CTRL AL. CUD SEE SOME LOCALLY HEAVY
DOWNPOURS IN PORTIONS OF CWA AS OHP EXCEEDING AN INCH IN NE MONROE
CO. MODELS SAG UPR TROF E AND SE AND STRETCHES TROF FROM SE ACRS NRN
GULF STATES BY END OF PD. I306 DATA INDICATES BEST LIFT AND THT-E
RDG AXIS PROGRESSING TO THE E INTO SE. FA BECMG UNDER A MORE W/NWRLY
FLOW REGIME THRU PD AND THIS WILL TEND TO KEEP HIER POPS E THRU MID
WEEK. OTR FLY IN THE OINTMENT IS PROGRESSION OF MID/UPR LVL LOW OVR
FL STRAITS. HMM...MODELS LOOK TO NOT HAVE A GOOD HANDLE ON THIS
FEATURE. BUT SAT ANIMATION SHOWS LOW TRACKING NW AND GIVEN PROFILE
AND FCST PLACEMENT OF UPR FEATURES...MOISTURE SHUD CONTINUE NNW AND
THEN N AS TROF ADVANCES E...HOPEFULLY. POPS MAY HAVE TO BE REARRANGED
LATER IF UPR LOW APPROACHES NRN GULF. ATTM...WILL STAY CLOSE TO
NUMBERS AND TMPS. THANKS BHM FOR COORD.
(1) 71/90/70/91 3301
(2) 73/90/72/91 3302 I-10/GJM
$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 9, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 63 min |
| Sep 9, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 50 min |
| Sep 9, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 48 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.