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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Mobile, AL

May 26, 2001Stone County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2001, 9:40 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2001, 9:40 PM CDT (02:40 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Stone County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 00:00Z on 2001-05-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2006 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2001-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2006 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.2
Supercell composite
7.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 270243
SVRMOB

MSC131-270330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
940 PM CDT SAT MAY 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 PM CDT

* AT 938 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF WIGGINS...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PERKINSTON...TEN MILE BY 955 PM CDT
  WHITES CROSSING BY 1005 PM CDT
  RAMSEY SPRINGS BY 1015 PM CDT

STRONG DAMAGING WIND TO 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL TO THE SIZE OF 
QUARTERS...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.  IF IN 
THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE 
STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 3092 8946 3074 8946 3075 8889 3091 8890

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.