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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2016, 6:44 PM CDT for George County, Mississippi. It was in force for 31 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
- Mar 17, 2016, 6:44 PM CDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County George County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:05 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Lucedale, MS | PUBLIC REPORTS DIME TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN LUCEDALE AT THE WALMART. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 1853 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 644 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted.
964
WUUS54 KMOB 172344
SVRMOB
MSC039-180015-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0081.160317T2344Z-160318T0015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
644 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 644 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES WEST OF
LUCEDALE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
LUCEDALE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3090 8887 3091 8884 3092 8883 3100 8866
3100 8857 3078 8849 3073 8883 3074 8887
TIME...MOT...LOC 2344Z 253DEG 19KT 3085 8882
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 12:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry | 58 min |
| Mar 17, 12:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 38 min |
| Mar 17, 1:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 46 min |
| Mar 17, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Greene | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 2:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 35 min |
| Mar 17, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 64 min |
| Mar 17, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 41 min |
| Mar 17, 3:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Perry | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Wayne | 39 min |
| Mar 17, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Wayne | 24 min |
| Mar 17, 5:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 44 min |
| Mar 17, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Greene, Perry, Wayne | 61 min |
| Mar 17, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Perry, Stone | 47 min |
| Mar 17, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 68 min |
| Mar 17, 6:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 33 min |
| Mar 17, 6:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 12 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MOB | George, Greene, Perry, Stone, Wayne | 33 hr |
| Mar 17, 6:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Greene | 55 min |
| Mar 17, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 33 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.