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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 1, 2000, 4:07 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 38 min. 2 reports 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
- Apr 1, 2000, 4:07 PM CST (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2000, 4:45 PM CST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wayne County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 4:15 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Laurel, MS | Several automobiles and homes were damaged. |
| Apr 1, 4:25 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Eucutta, MS | Golfball size hail was reported covering the ground in the community. |
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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1188 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
351 WUUS54 KMOB 012208 SVRMOB MSC153-012245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 407 PM CST SAT APR 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 445 PM CST * AT 407 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CENTRAL JONES COUNTY...OR ABOUT 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LAUREL...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. LAT...LON 3174 8918 3157 8910 3173 8852 3194 8861
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 4:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 47 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.