Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 2002, 5:20 PM CDT for George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2002, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2002, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County George County, MS
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 5:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Agricola, MS | Several trees were blown down near Agricola as a line of thunderstorms moved through. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 896 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 454 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS54 KMOB 082220 SVRMOB MSC039-082300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 520 PM CDT MON APR 8 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI * UNTIL 600 PM CDT * AT 520 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER AGRICOLA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... EASTERN GEORGE AND SOUTHEASTERN GEORGE COUNTIES. 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 3100 8862 3073 8861 3075 8843 3099 8844
The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 4:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene | 54 min |
| Apr 8, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 267 days |
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.