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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Mobile, AL

April 3, 2000Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2000, 12:04 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 56 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
Apr 3, 2000, 12:04 PM CDT (17:04 UTC)
Expired
Apr 3, 2000, 1:00 PM CDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

County Stone County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 82 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-04-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1735 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Slidell Radar S, LA at 12:00Z on 2000-04-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 250 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

399 
WUUS54 KMOB 031704
SVRMOB
MSC131-031800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1204 PM CDT MON APR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  STONE COUNTY IN MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 100 PM CDT

* AT 1204 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WIGGINS...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES NORTH OF DIAMONDHEAD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WIGGINS AT 1235 PM CDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM CDT MONDAY AFTERNOON
FOR ALABAMA AND FLORIDA AND MISSISSIPPI.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 2, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWayne61 min
Apr 2, 11:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWayne60 min
Apr 3, 11:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBPerry29 min
Apr 3, 12:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBWayne54 min
Apr 3, 12:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBGeorge44 min
Apr 3, 1:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMOBGreene29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.