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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 29, 2001, 2:55 PM CST for Greene County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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
- Jan 29, 2001, 2:55 PM CST (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 29, 2001, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Greene County, MS
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 11:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 337 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 292055 SVRMOB MSC041-292130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 255 PM CST MON JAN 29 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 330 PM CST * AT 255 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF JONATHAN TO 6 MILES WEST OF VERNAL...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... VERNAL BY 300 PM CST LEAKESVILLE BY 305 PM CST PISGAH...ROUNSAVILLE BY 315 PM CST STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. IF IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. LAT...LON 3142 8866 3102 8889 3103 8846 3141 8846
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 25 min |
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.