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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Mobile, AL

February 9, 2001Greene County, Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 9, 2001, 6:34 PM CST for Greene County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 26 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
Feb 9, 2001, 6:34 PM CST (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Feb 9, 2001, 7:00 PM CST
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Mobile, AL
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Greene County, MS, Wayne County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 161 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2001-02-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Jackson, MS at 00:00Z on 2001-02-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -221 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-221 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 100035
SVRMOB
MSC041-153-100100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
634 PM CST FRI FEB 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI
  GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 700 PM CST

* AT 634 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF PIAVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PIAVE...SMITHTOWN BY 640 PM CST
  CHICORA...ROBINSON JUNCTION BY 655 PM CST
  BATTLES...BUCKATUNNA BY 700 PM CST

STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN 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 3146 8887 3133 8882 3139 8847 3164 8850

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 9, 6:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOBPerry31 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.