Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 2001, 8:31 PM CST for Perry County, Mississippi. It was in force for 29 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
- Mar 1, 2001, 8:31 PM CST (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2001, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Perry County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 020231 SVRMOB MSC111-020300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 831 PM CST THU MAR 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 900 PM CST * AT 831 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF TALLAHALA...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RUNNELSTOWN...TALLAHALA BY 835 PM CST RHODES BY 850 PM CST THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 3139 8937 3127 8936 3135 8893 3154 8894
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 Mar 1, 5:22 PM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 5:22 PM CST, 3 hours 9 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 521 PM THU MAR 1 2001 WILL UPDATE TO MAKE MINOR CORRECTIONS AND TO ADJUST WINDS. NO OTHER MAJOR CHANGES...UPDATE OUT SOON. 29 .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 63 min |
| Mar 2, 2:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 49 min |
| Mar 2, 3:29 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 53 min |
| Mar 2, 3:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 35 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.