Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2000, 11:31 AM CDT for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 3, 2000, 11:31 AM CDT (16:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2000, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
County Perry County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 11:45 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Richton, MS | Strong thunderstorm winds blew trees down 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1735 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 318 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 3.0
- Supercell composite
- 12.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 031633 SVRMOB MSC111-031700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1131 AM CDT MON APR 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL NOON CDT * AT 1131 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEW AUGUSTA...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PETAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RICHTON AT 1140 AM CDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CDT MONDAY FOR MISSISSIPPI. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 P&M CDT MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND MISSISSIPPI.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 61 min |
| Apr 2, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 60 min |
| Apr 3, 12:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 54 min |
| Apr 3, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 44 min |
| Apr 3, 1:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Greene | 29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.