Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2001, 3:55 PM CDT for Perry County, Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 35 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
- May 2, 2001, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2001, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Wiggins, MS | High winds from a thunderstorm blew a tin roof off a barn. Dime size hail was also reported. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 022055 SVRMOB MSC111-131-022130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 355 PM CDT WED MAY 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 430 PM CDT * AT 355 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF WHITES CROSSING...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WIGGINS BY 400 PM CDT STRONG DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING 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 3067 8893 3083 8885 3102 8915 3075 8932
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 37 min |
| May 2, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.