Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 2, 2001, 3:55 PM CST for Greene County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2001, 3:55 PM CST (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2001, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greene County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 4:05 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Eucutta, MS | Thunderstorm winds downed trees 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
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 948 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 584 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 4.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
384 WUUS54 KMOB 022155 SVRMOB MSC041-153-022230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 355 PM CST FRI MAR 2 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 430 PM CST * AT 355 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SAND HILL...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BOTHWELL...PIAVE BY 400 PM CST SMITHTOWN BY 405 PM CST BATTLES...BUCKATUNNA BY 420 PM CST STATE LINE BY 425 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.
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, 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.