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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Mobile, AL

April 3, 2000George County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2000, 12:46 PM CDT for George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 44 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, 12:46 PM CDT (17:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2000, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Whole counties

County George County, MS

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:47 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.

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, 10:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 122 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 031747
SVRMOB
MSC039-031830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1246 PM CDT MON APR 3 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1246 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES WEST OF LUCEDALE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  EAST OF WIGGINS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LUCEDALE AT 110 PM CDT

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

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.

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, 11:31 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Perry	29 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.