Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 2001, 8:42 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 63 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, 8:42 PM CST (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2001, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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.
313 WUUS54 KMOB 020242 SVRMOB MSC153-020345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 842 PM CST THU MAR 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 945 PM CST * AT 842 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF STRENGTHFORD TO 9 MILES WEST OF MULBERRY...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... STRENGTHFORD BY 845 PM CST MULBERRY BY 850 PM CST WHISTLER BY 900 PM CST CLARA BY 905 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. 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 3171 8909 3146 8891 3147 8850 3184 8872
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 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 5:22 PM CST, 3 hours 20 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, 8:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 29 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 |
Nearby
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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.