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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Mobile, AL

January 23, 2000Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 23, 2000, 6:07 PM CST for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 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 23, 2000, 6:07 PM CST (00:07 UTC)
Expired
Jan 23, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Stone County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 00:00Z on 2000-01-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 247 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 00:00Z on 2000-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 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
247 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-71 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 240005
SVRMOB
MSC131-240045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
607 PM CST SUN JAN 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 605 PM CST... AS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  WAS LOCATED 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WIGGINS OR 11 MILES WEST OF
  PERKINSTON... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH THE VICINITY OF -
  PERKINSTON BY 630 PM CST
  WIGGINS BY 635 PM CST

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK REFUGE FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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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.