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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 337, NWS Mobile, AL

December 16, 2000Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 1:32 PM CST for Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 43 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: Dec 16, 2000, 1:32 PM CST (19:32 UTC)
Expired: Dec 16, 2000, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 16, 2:10 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Waynesboro, MS	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees just southeast of Waynesboro.

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
Dec 16, 10:15 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.6

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 161933
SVRMOB
MSC041-111-153-162015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
132 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 PM CST

* AT 132 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF NEW AUGUSTA...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BEAUMONT...FERGUSON...WINGATE BY 135 PM CST
  HINTONVILLE...KITTRELL...LEAF BY 140 PM CST
  NEELY...RHODES...RICHTON BY 145 PM CST
  AVERA...VERNAL...MULBERRY BY 150 PM CST

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH
THIS STORM.  IF IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY
SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3173 8861 3162 8877 3153 8885 3148 8892
          3144 8892 3143 8900 3137 8910 3114 8904
          3098 8905 3101 8896 3100 8884 3100 8843
          3144 8846 3149 8859

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 16, 1:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	George, Stone	62 min
Dec 16, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Greene	33 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.