Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 338, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 16, 2000, 1:43 PM CST for George County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 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
- Dec 16, 2000, 1:43 PM CST (19:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2000, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties George County, MS, Stone 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 1:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 161945 SVRMOB MSC039-131-162045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 143 PM CST SAT DEC 16 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 245 PM CST * AT 143 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF WIGGINS TO 10 MILES WEST OF MCHENRY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... ROGERS LAKE AT 145 PM CST PERKINSTON...PERRY...TEN MILE BY 150 PM CST MCHENRY...WLOX TV STATION TOWER BY 155 PM CST WHITES CROSSING BY 200 PM CST BEATRICE BY 210 PM CST RAMSEY SPRINGS BY 215 PM CST 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 16, 1:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 43 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.