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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Mobile, AL

January 3, 2000Perry County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 11:18 PM CST for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 27 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, 11:18 PM CST (05:18 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2000, 11:45 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County Perry County, MS

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 3, 7:15 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 123 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 718 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 336 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 349 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.5
Supercell composite: 8.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMOB 040520
SVRMOB
MSC111-040545-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1118 PM CST MON JAN 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 1145 PM CST

* AT 1118 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW AUGUSTA...MOVING EAST 
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NEW AUGUSTA AT 1130 PM
  BEAUMONT AND RICHTON AT 1145 PM

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. 
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING 
HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND 
VERY HEAVY RAIN.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE 
WARNING.  PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE 
SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM CST TUESDAY MORNING.
 
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN MOBILE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 7:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	71 min
Jan 3, 11:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2000 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.