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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Mobile, AL

August 2, 1999Greene County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 1999, 3:03 PM CDT for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 72 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
Aug 2, 1999, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1999, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
72 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Greene County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2407 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, Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 6 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2407 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Aug 2, 2:10 PM CDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 2:10 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION ...CORRECTED FOR PRELIM POPS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
210 PM CDT MON AUG 02 1999

LONG WAVE PATTERN BEGINNING TO LOOK LIKE THE NEW WEATHER DYNASTY
OVER THE WEEK. INLAND TEMPS REMAINING CLOSE TO OR SLIGHTLY WARMER
THAN SUNDAY.

AVN INITIALIZED BEST WITH STREAMLINES...TEMPS...DEWPOINTS...BUT MSLP
INITIALIZED PRETTY SIMILAR TO IT AND THE ETA. EVEN NGM INITIALIZED
EQUALLY WELL WITH AVN. LOOKS LIKE WE VERIFIED CHANCE POPS ISSUED
EARLY THIS MORNING BASED ON RADAR RETURNS FROM INLAND COUNTIES.

LATEST SURFACE DATA AND SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING WEAK SURFACE TROF
ALONG THE GULF COAST TO REMAIN WITH SEA BREEZE MAINTAINED INTO
EVENING HOURS FOR CHANCE POPS CURRENTLY IN THE COASTAL ZONES.

INLAND TO ISOLATED NIGHT AND WIDELY SCATTERED DAYTIME CONVECTION AS
SURFACE TROF STALLS NEAR SHORE.  TUESDAY...WEAK FRONT TO BECOME
QUASISTATIONARY OVER THE FORECAST AREA. RH IN BOUNDARY LAYER AND
LEVELS TO 850MB LOOKING DRY INLAND SO WIDELY SCATTERED POPS INLAND
BECOMING SCATTERED POPS NEAR THE GULF AND BAYS. SEABREEZE REGIME
STAYS IN CONTROL OF COASTAL WX RATHER THAN WEAK OFFSHORE FLOW.
TWEAKING POPS DOWN A BIT ALL ZONES...CANT SEE 50 PERCENT COVERAGE IN
THIS REGIME.

PRELIM NUMBERS...

MOB BB 075/094/073/092/071 77232
PNS BB 078/095/075/094/074 77342
DTS BB 078/095/075/094/074 77342
GZH BB 074/094/070/091/069 77332
61A BB 074/094/070/091/069 77332
2RO BB 073/094/070/092/069 77222

MOB=MOBILE REGIONAL
PNS=PENSACOLA REGIONAL
DTS=DESTIN FL
GZH=EVERGREEN AL
61A=CAMDEN AL(WILCOX COUNTY)
2RO=WAYNESBORO MS(WAYNE COUNTY)

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBBaldwin46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.