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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Mobile, AL

September 6, 2001Greene County, Mississippi; Washington County, Alabama

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 2001, 3:56 PM CDT for Greene County, Mississippi; Washington County, Alabama. It was in force for 34 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
Sep 6, 2001, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties

Counties Washington County, AL, Greene County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 2001-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1084 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 12:00Z on 2001-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -27 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1084 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 6, 3:00 PM CDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 6, 3:00 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
300 PM CDT THU SEP 6 2001

IN THE SHORT TERM...SEE NO REASON WHY FRIDAY WOULD BE MUCH DIFFERENT
THAN TODAY OR WEDNESDAY...SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING
SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS.  THE UPPER TROF BY LATE SATURDAY WILL BE
CLOSE ENOUGH TO AFFECT THE PRECIPITATION CHANCES WITH BEST CHANCES
SUNDAY AND SUNDAY EVENING WITH DECREASING CHANCES FROM NORTHWEST TO
SOUTHEAST LATE SUNDAY NIGHT. MRF IS A LITTLE FASTER WITH THE FRONTAL
PASSAGE THAN THE AVN...WILL FIGURE FROPA LATE SUNDAY NIGHT OR EARLY
MONDAY MORNING...CLOSER TO THE AVN SOLUTION...WITH CLEARING BEHIND
THE FRONT AS WEAK UPPER RIDGING DEVELOPS AND THE REMAINDER OF THE
FORECAST WILL BE DRIER AND FEW IF ANY CLOUDS. SHOULD NOT BE A GREAT
DEAL OF RAIN WITH THE SYSTEM AS ITS MOVING RIGHT ALONG....5 DAY
TOTALS FORECAST TO BE BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES. MARINE ZONES WILL SEE
WIND SHIFT TO THE NORTH WITH FRONT BUT SPEEDS SHOULD REMAIN BELOW
ADVISORY LEVELS. /11

NUMBERS...
MOB BT 072/088 073/087 072 1134354
PNS BT 073/088 074/086 074 1134354
DTS BT 074/088 075/085 075 1134354
GZH BT 071/088 072/087 070 1134354
2R0 BT 071/088 072/087 070 1134354
61A BT 071/088 072/087 070 1134354

.MOB...
AL...NONE.
FL...NONE.
MS...NONE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 2:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOBWayne118 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2001Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Alabama, 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.