Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2008, 6:13 AM CDT for Greene County, Perry County, Wayne County, Mississippi. It was in force for 47 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
- May 3, 2008, 6:13 AM CDT (11:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2008, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:50 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | New Augusta, MS | TREES DOWN ON EASTERN SIDE OF NEW AUGUSTA |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:07 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1557 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 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 031115
SVRMOB
MSC041-111-153-031200-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0113.080503T1113Z-080503T1200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
613 AM CDT SAT MAY 3 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN GREENE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
NORTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF NEW AUGUSTA...
WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAYNESBORO...
* UNTIL 700 AM CDT
* AT 612 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS AROUND 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRETNA
TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BELLEVILLE...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM 13 MILES NORTH OF WAYNESBORO TO 16 MILES SOUTH OF WEST
HATTIESBURG...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
RHODES AND WOODWARDS BY 620 AM CDT...
WAYNESBORO BY 625 AM CDT...
MULBERRY AND BELLEVILLE BY 630 AM CDT...
RICHTON...MAHNED...GRETNA AND CLARA BY 635 AM CDT...
WINCHESTER BY 645 AM CDT...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWEST ALABAMA AND SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3153 8846 3110 8881 3109 8916 3144 8915
3146 8894 3182 8893 3186 8848
TIME...MOT...LOC 1113Z 253DEG 31KT 3185 8856 3109 8937
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 6:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Wayne | 14 min |
| May 3, 7:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 44 min |
| May 3, 7:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 58 min |
| May 3, 7:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 49 min |
| May 3, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Mississippi, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.