Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Mobile, AL
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Wayne | 118 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.