Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 26, 1996, 3:40 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 65 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
- Jan 26, 1996, 3:40 PM CST (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 1996, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 65 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 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 643 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 718 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Jan 26, 2:33 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 2:33 PM CST, 1 hour 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 230 PM CST FRI JAN 26 1996 WX ACTIVE WITH TOR WATCH AND 88D LIGHTING UP BRIGHTER BY THE MINUTE SO WILL BE BRIEF. WARM FRONT HAS PASSED TO THE NORTH OF CST IN RESPONSE TO STRENGTHENING S/SERLY SFC GRADIENT AHEAD OF SFC FRONT WHICH STRETCHES THRU CTRL AR/NW LA INTO ERN TX. SFC MOISTURE CONVERGENCE HAS BEEN INCRNG AS DWPTS HAVE NOW REACHED MID 60S ACRS FA. AS FRONT SLAMS INTO MOIST/UNSTABLE AIRMASS...WIDESPREAD STG/POSSIBLY SVR TSTMS WILL BE THE RULE THAN THE XCPTN. VILS RUNNING LOWER 40S HAVE BEEN PRODUCING HAIL IN SW MS DUE TO SVRL NAWAS RPTS AND DO NOT SEE THIS ACTIVITY LETTING UP AS IT WILL EVENTUALLY MOVE INTO CWA. MODELS SWING FRONTAL SYSTEM THRU FA AROUND 03/06Z SAT WITH WX CALMING DOWN AND COOLING OFF ATTM AS HI PRES FILTERS IN. (1) 44/54/30/59 +100 (2) 48/58/34/60 +100 GJM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 4:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 64 min |
| Jan 26, 4:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 63 min |
| Jan 26, 4:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 56 min |
| Jan 26, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 60 min |
| Jan 26, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 66 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.