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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2000, 3:05 PM CDT for Greene County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 2000, 3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 2000, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Greene County, MS, Wayne County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 3:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Kittrell, MS | Thunderstorm winds blew down trees east of the community toward the State Line area. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 2397 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1408 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 162007 COR SVRMOB MSC041-153-162030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED CITY SPELLING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 305 PM CDT SUN JUL 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN GREENE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 330 PM CDT * AT 305 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF WAYNESBORO OR NEAR BUCKATUNNA AND MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE... 4 MILES WEST OF STATE LINE AT 315 PM CDT REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEA REST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MOBILE. LAT...LON 3167 8854 3159 8873 3123 8861 3130 8845
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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.