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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Mobile, AL

January 24, 2002Wayne County, Mississippi

NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 2002, 4:21 PM CST for Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 24, 2002, 4:21 PM CST (22:21 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 2002, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Mobile, AL
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, MS

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 24, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 350 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS54 KMOB 242221
SVRMOB
MSC153-242245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
420 PM CST THU JAN 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI

* UNTIL 445 PM CST

* AT 420 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EUCUTTA...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HIWANNEE BY 430 PM CST
  MATHERVILLE BY 440 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.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO
AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

LAT...LON 3180 8905 3165 8893 3188 8848 3203 8864

The office that day

Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 4:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MOB	Wayne	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.