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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL

March 5, 1998Greene County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Mar 5, 1998, 1:52 PM CST for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 48 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
Mar 5, 1998, 1:52 PM CST (19:52 UTC)
Expired
Mar 5, 1998, 2:40 PM CST
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Greene County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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 nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1998-03-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 477 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 1998-03-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 230 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
320 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 051952 RRA
TORMOB
MSC041-052040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
152 PM CST THU MAR 5 1998


THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE AL HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 240 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

   ...GREENE COUNTY


AT 151 PM CST... DOPPLER RADAR AT MOBILE INDICATED A DEVELOPING
TORNADO 12 MILES WEST OF LEAKESVILLE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE...
  LEAKESVILLE AT 210 PM CST
  PISGAH AT 215 PM CST

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...SEEK SAFETY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR
CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 5, 1:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGreene66 min

Nearby

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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.