Alert archive / Mississippi / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 17, 2016, 7:23 PM CDT for George County, Mississippi; Mobile County, Alabama. It was in force for 37 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, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2016, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Mobile County, AL, George County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.
504
WUUS54 KMOB 180023
SVRMOB
ALC097-MSC039-180100-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0083.160318T0023Z-160318T0100Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
723 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN MOBILE COUNTY IN SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA...
SOUTHEASTERN GEORGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN MISSISSIPPI...
* UNTIL 800 PM CDT
* AT 722 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF LUCEDALE...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.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOBILE...CHUNCHULA AND SEMMES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3075 8854 3093 8854 3100 8814 3072 8812
TIME...MOT...LOC 0022Z 267DEG 31KT 3085 8843
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$1 follow-up statement
906
WWUS54 KMOB 180039
SVSMOB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
739 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
MSC039-180048-
/O.CAN.KMOB.SV.W.0083.000000T0000Z-160318T0100Z/
GEORGE MS-
739 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GEORGE COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN ALABAMA.
LAT...LON 3077 8841 3092 8842 3100 8814 3072 8812
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 267DEG 31KT 3086 8826
$$
ALC097-180100-
/O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0083.000000T0000Z-160318T0100Z/
MOBILE AL-
739 PM CDT THU MAR 17 2016
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN MOBILE COUNTY...
AT 738 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SEMMES...OR 11
MILES WEST OF SARALAND...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.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MOBILE...CHUNCHULA AND SEMMES.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
&&
LAT...LON 3077 8841 3092 8842 3100 8814 3072 8812
TIME...MOT...LOC 0038Z 267DEG 31KT 3086 8826
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, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 25 min |
| Mar 17, 7:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 45 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 |
| Mar 17, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 23 min |
| Mar 17, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Escambia | 65 min |
| Mar 17, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Mobile | 58 min |
| Mar 17, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 29 min |
| Mar 17, 8:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 58 min | |
| Mar 17, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 38 min |
| Mar 17, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Mobile | 45 min |
| Mar 17, 9:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Mar 17, 9:20 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 55 min | |
| Mar 17, 9:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin | 37 min |
| Mar 17, 10:00 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 90 min | |
| Mar 17, 10:10 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Mar 17, 10:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 57 min | |
| Mar 17, 11:16 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 59 min | |
| Mar 17, 11:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 60 min | |
| Mar 18, 12:42 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 63 min | |
| Mar 18, 1:09 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 96 min | |
| Mar 18, 4:43 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 92 min | |
| Mar 18, 6:00 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 30 min | |
| Mar 18, 6:59 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 31 min | |
| Mar 18, 7:10 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 65 min | |
| Mar 18, 8:14 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MOB | 2 hr | |
| Mar 18, 4:05 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MOB | 66 hr |
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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.