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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2016, 7:05 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 25 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 17, 2016, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2016, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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 17, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 761 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1293 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted.
399
WUUS54 KMOB 180005
SVRMOB
MSC131-180030-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0082.160318T0005Z-160318T0030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
705 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN STONE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 730 PM CDT
* AT 705 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PERKINSTON...
OR NEAR WIGGINS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 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...
WIGGINS...MCHENRY AND PERKINSTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3091 8913 3090 8888 3068 8889 3068 8906
3072 8921
TIME...MOT...LOC 0005Z 298DEG 32KT 3080 8907
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
866
WWUS54 KMOB 180024
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
724 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
MSC131-180030-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0082.000000T0000Z-160318T0030Z/
STONE MS-
724 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 730 PM CDT
FOR EASTERN STONE COUNTY...
AT 724 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 14 MILES EAST OF
PERKINSTON...OR 15 MILES EAST OF WIGGINS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
EASTERN STONE COUNTY.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3090 8888 3068 8889 3068 8906 3091 8901
TIME...MOT...LOC 0024Z 286DEG 32KT 3079 8889
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 17, 7:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 37 min |
| Mar 17, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George, Stone | 37 min |
| Mar 17, 8:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 45 min |
| Mar 18, 5:25 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Wayne | 50 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.