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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Mobile, AL

January 24, 1997George County, Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 5:13 PM CST for George County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 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 24, 1997, 5:13 PM CST (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 1997, 6:15 PM CST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

Counties George County, MS, Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 24, 4:45 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 201 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 543 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 330 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 342 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.2
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 242314 RRA
SVRMOB
MSC039-131-250015-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
513 PM CST FRI JAN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
 
   ...GEORGE COUNTY...STONE COUNTY
 
AT 714 PM...NWS DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
APPROACHING SOUTHEAST STONE COUNTY MISSISSSIPPI. THIS STORM WILL CLIP
SOUTHEAST STONE COUNTY AND THEN MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST GEORGE COUNTY
THROUGH 615 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 4:51 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Stone	69 min
Jan 24, 4:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Perry	61 min
Jan 24, 5:05 AM CST	Tornado Warning	MOB	Wayne	40 min
Jan 24, 5:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Greene	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.