Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2001, 2:26 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2001, 2:26 PM CST (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2001, 3:15 PM CST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Wayne County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 3:00 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Matherville, MS | High thunderstorm winds blew down trees along Highway 510 just south of the community. High thunderstorm winds also produced some minor structural damage to a store and restaurant in the community. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 11:30 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
820 WUUS54 KMOB 022027 SVRMOB MSC153-022115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 226 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 315 PM CST * AT 226 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF HIWANNEE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HIWANNEE BY 230 PM CST MATHERVILLE BY 245 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAT...LON 3190 8889 3172 8884 3177 8849 3186 8850
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 1, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.