Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 2009, 10:16 PM CDT for Wayne County, Mississippi; Choctaw County, Alabama. It was in force for 44 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
- Mar 27, 2009, 10:16 PM CDT (03:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2009, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Choctaw County, AL, Wayne County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 27, 10:09 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 146 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
- 602 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS54 KMOB 280316
SVRMOB
ALC023-MSC153-280400-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0049.090328T0316Z-090328T0400Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1016 PM CDT FRI MAR 27 2009
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...
WEST CENTRAL CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...
* UNTIL 1100 PM CDT
* AT 1015 PM CDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING
WINDS OVER 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS NEAR STRENGTHFORD...OR ABOUT 15
MILES EAST OF LAUREL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
WHISTLER AND 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EUCUTTA BY 1025 PM CDT...
7 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOICE BY 1030 PM CDT...
HIWANNEE BY 1035 PM CDT...
9 MILES NORTHWEST OF MELVIN BY 1050 PM CDT...
HINTON BY 1055 PM CDT...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM CDT SATURDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.
LAT...LON 3204 8832 3150 8887 3154 8894 3174 8893
3183 8885 3185 8863 3189 8848 3211 8845
TIME...MOT...LOC 0316Z 216DEG 50KT 3163 8890
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Wayne | 51 min |
| Mar 27, 10:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 10:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 11:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 115 min |
| Mar 27, 11:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 1:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 119 min |
| Mar 28, 9:49 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Perry | 5 days |
| Mar 28, 12:29 PM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 21 hr |
| Mar 28, 12:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone | 12 hr |
| Mar 27, 8:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 40 min | |
| Mar 27, 8:55 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 50 min | |
| Mar 27, 8:58 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 47 min | |
| Mar 27, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 10:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 48 min | |
| Mar 27, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 10:53 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 67 min | |
| Mar 27, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 20 min |
| Mar 27, 11:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Baldwin | 112 min |
| Mar 28, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw, Clarke, Washington | 50 min |
| Mar 28, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 1:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 1:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 1:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 1:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 1:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 16 min |
| Mar 28, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 2:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 2:45 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Mar 28, 2:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Mobile | 15 min |
| Mar 28, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 2:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 3:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Mobile | 89 min |
| Mar 28, 3:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 4:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Choctaw | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 4:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 65 min |
| Mar 28, 4:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe | 3 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:57 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 5:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Covington | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 5:31 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 21 min |
| Mar 28, 5:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MOB | Covington | 12 min |
| Mar 28, 6:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 28 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 16 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 7 days |
| Mar 28, 6:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 64 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Escambia | 13 days |
| Mar 28, 6:11 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 7 days |
| Mar 28, 6:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:15 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 8:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 50 hr |
| Mar 28, 8:48 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington, Escambia | 3 days |
| Mar 28, 8:52 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | MOB | Covington | 5 days |
| Mar 28, 10:26 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 109 min | |
| Mar 28, 12:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia, Monroe | 12 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.