Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Mobile, AL

Issued

Feb 19, 1996, 3:14 PM CST (21:14 UTC)

Expired

Feb 19, 1996, 4:15 PM CST

In force

61 min

Issued by

NWS Mobile, AL

Area

Whole counties

Counties George County, MS, Greene County, MS

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

000 
WUUS1 KMOB 192114 RRA
SVRMOB
MSC039-041-192215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
314 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...GEORGE COUNTY...GREENE COUNTY
 
AT 315 PM MOBILE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
WESTERN GEORGE COUNTY INTO STONE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORMS WERE LARGE ENOUGH THAT MOST OF THE TWO
COUNTIES WILL BE AFFECTED BY POSSIBLE SEVERE CONDITIONS.
 
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.
 
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.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 19, 2:40 PM CST, 34 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
240 PM CST MON FEB 19 1996

ALREADY ISSUING WRNGS FOR STORMS IN CWA SO WILL BE VERY BRIEF. LOOKS
LIKE MAIN THRUST OF SVR WX WILL BE BETWEEN NOW AND 9 PM MAYBE A
LITTLE LATER OVER PNHDL AND E CWA. NO REAL COLD AIR TO FOLLOW THIS
SYSTEM. SHUD CLR EARLY ENOUGH ON FAT TUESDAY TO WARM CLOSE TO NGM
AFTER LOW CLDS AND POSSIBLY L- IN ERLY MORNING.(1)53/75/53/78 8200
(2)56/74/54/78/ 8200 DF

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.