Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 3, 2000, 5:28 PM CST for Greene County, Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 62 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2000, 5:28 PM CST (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2000, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 5:45 PM CST | Hail 1 | Leakesville, MS | Quarter size hail was reported north of the community. |
| Mar 3, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Avera, MS | An F0 tornado, about thirty yards wide, moved along at near tree top level for about six miles. The tornado first touched down near State Highway 63 southeast of Avera where a mobile home that was tied down was shifted off its blocks. A pump house was destr |
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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 635 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 251 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 032335 COR SVRMOB MSC041-111-040030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 528 PM CST FRI MAR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI PERRY COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 630 PM CST * AT 528 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF RICHTON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF PETAL...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN MOBILE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CST FRIDAY EVENING FOR ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 5:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry | 44 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.