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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Mobile, AL

January 3, 2000Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 7:34 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 71 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 3, 2000, 7:34 PM CST (01:34 UTC)
Expired
Jan 3, 2000, 8:45 PM CST
In force
71 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, MS

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 3, 5:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jan 3, 7:15 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1234 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2000-01-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 285 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
285 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.4
Supercell composite
9.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 040135
SVRMOB
MSC153-040245-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
734 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 845 PM CST

* AT 732 PM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WAS LOCATED 24 MILES WEST OF WAYNESBORO OR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  EUCUTTA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH THE VICINITY OF -
  EUCUTTA BY 745 PM CST
  WHISTLER BY 745 PM CST
  BOICE BY 755 PM CST
  HIWANNEE BY 755 PM CST
  MATHERVILLE BY 805 PM CST

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 3, 11:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBPerry27 min
Jan 3, 11:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGreene32 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.