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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this tornado warning at Apr 15, 1999, 12:24 AM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 81 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1999, 12:24 AM CDT (05:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1999, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 81 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 05:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:30 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Whistler, MS | Trees were blown down just north of Whistler. |
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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 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
- 219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
999 WFUS1 KMOB 150518 RRA TORMOB MSC153-150645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1224 AM CDT THU APR 15 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 145 AM CDT * AT 1223 AM CDT... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A TORNADO WAS LOCATED 16 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO OR 7 MILES WEST OF WHISTLER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * TORNADO WILL PASS NEAR- WHISTLER BY 1230 AM CDT HIWANNEE BY 1245 AM CDT MATHERVILLE BY 1255 AM CDT 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 71 min |
| Apr 15, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 79 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.