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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2026, 2:45 PM CDT for Stone County, Mississippi. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 24, 2026, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2026, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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.
Did it verify
Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 67 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
- 2307 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
780
WUUS54 KMOB 241945
SVRMOB
MSC131-242030-
/O.NEW.KMOB.SV.W.0082.260624T1945Z-260624T2030Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Mobile AL
245 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026
The National Weather Service in Mobile has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Stone County in southeastern Mississippi...
* Until 330 PM CDT.
* At 245 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 13 miles west of
McHenry, or 13 miles southeast of Poplarville, moving southeast at
40 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
* Locations impacted include...
McHenry.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3080 8934 3068 8896 3068 8924 3065 8924
3065 8934
TIME...MOT...LOC 1945Z 298DEG 33KT 3071 8937
HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED
MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH
$$2 follow-up statements
005 WWUS54 KMOB 241958 SVSMOB Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Mobile AL 258 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026 MSC131-242030- /O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0082.000000T0000Z-260624T2030Z/ Stone MS- 258 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN STONE COUNTY... At 258 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 11 miles west of McHenry, or 16 miles southeast of Poplarville, moving southeast at 35 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... McHenry. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3080 8934 3068 8896 3068 8924 3065 8934 TIME...MOT...LOC 1958Z 298DEG 29KT 3068 8933 HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH $$
040 WWUS54 KMOB 242011 SVSMOB Severe Weather Statement National Weather Service Mobile AL 311 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026 MSC131-242030- /O.CON.KMOB.SV.W.0082.000000T0000Z-260624T2030Z/ Stone MS- 311 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR SOUTHWESTERN STONE COUNTY... At 311 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Saucier, or 15 miles northwest of Gulfport, moving southeast at 40 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include... McHenry. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3080 8934 3068 8896 3068 8924 3065 8934 TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 298DEG 33KT 3062 8920 HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Mobile, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 24, 1:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
- Issued at 1243 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026
- There is the potential for a few severe storms with localized strong wind gusts and locally heavy rainfall through Thursday, with the best chance occurring this afternoon and tonight.
- Summertime heat returns over the weekend into early next week. Heat advisories possible over portions of the area early next week.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 1:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Mobile AL
101 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026
...New DISCUSSION, AVIATION, MARINE...
.KEY MESSAGES...
Issued at 1243 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026
- There is the potential for a few severe storms with localized
strong wind gusts and locally heavy rainfall through Thursday,
with the best chance occurring this afternoon and tonight.
- Summertime heat returns over the weekend into early next
week. Heat advisories possible over portions of the area early
next week.
&&
.DISCUSSION...
Issued at 1243 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026
24.12Z upper air maps show the axis of a mid to high level ridge
centered over northern MX across the lower 4 corners of the Desert
Southwest. The nose of this feature is oriented southeast to the
Gulf. On the northeast periphery of the ridge, resides an active
northwest flow at high levels of which is embedded a couple of
notable convective features. The first and closest to the local
area is sinking southeast over southwest MS and a second, more
potent complex with concentrated lightning activity was dropping
southeast over east OK/western AR. The first feature will likely
see a mesoscale outflow boundary and mid level energy being the
source of focus for additional convective initiation as it sinks
southeast into a warm, moist and unstable environment over the
central Gulf coast. Mesoanalysis on the pre-storm environment from
late AM shows the best instability/deep layer moisture gradients
(SBCAPE's 2000- 4000 J/Kg)(PWAT's: 1.6 to 2.0") oriented from
southern MS, westward across LA. While deep layer shear remains
rather weak at this time, there does appear to be a window for a
slight uptick in 0-3km shear to around 20 to 25 knots. This would
likely be enough to support some multicellular clusters and
potentially a little more robust outflow driven system or cluster
of storms which is supported in the latest convection allowing
models (CAM's) and short range ensembles. Development of and
southeastward moving clusters of storms, a few of which could
become marginally severe with damaging winds being the main
threats is advertised in the near term. The Storm Prediction
Center (SPC) has included the area, generally west of a
Greenville AL to Pensacola FL line, in a Marginal Risk of severe
weather for through tonight. A similar pattern continues into the
day Thursday too.
Due to recent excessive rains, especially in the hardest hit
areas, antecedent soil moisture levels and low flash flood
guidance are such that any heavy rains from storms through tonight
could quickly lead to runoff and flooding issues over problem
lower lying and urbanized areas subject to poor drain off of storm
water. Considering this, a slight risk of flash flooding is
outlooked for much of the area.
By the end of the week, upper ridging will quickly begin to build
over the southeastern US. Large scale compressional sinking will
result in two outcomes: One, a decrease in storm chances and
secondly a rise in temperatures. Heat indices look to climb into
the triple digits area-wide by the weekend with highs heating up
into lower/mid 90's. The latest gridded forecast suggests heat
products may be required for portions of the area the start of
next week as heat indices move into advisory criteria 108-112 then.
/10
&&
.AVIATION...
(18Z TAFS)
Issued at 1243 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026
General VFR conditions will see local drops to low end MVFR as
isolated to scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms develop and move
east over the forecast area this afternoon. After a short respite
this evening, another round of convection is expected to develop
later tonight into Thursday AM, dropping VFR/upper MVFR
conditions to lower end MVFR/IFR. /16
&&
.MARINE...
Issued at 1243 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026
Mariners are urged to stay weather aware in the near term for
clusters of thunderstorms that spread south and southeast off the
coast. A few of the storms will likely be strong with wind gusts
perhaps in excess of 40 kts, locally higher waves/seas, frequent
lightning and brief visibility reducing heavy rains. Away from
storms, a weak stationary front straddles the coast bringing
variable winds through tonight. The boundary lifts back up to the
north Thursday and dissipates as south to southwest flow becomes
established from high pressure setting up over the southwest
Atlantic into the central Gulf Friday through the weekend. Seas 2
feet or less. /10
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
Mobile 72 88 74 90 / 60 70 10 10
Pensacola 75 87 77 90 / 60 70 50 20
Destin 75 86 77 88 / 30 60 50 20
Evergreen 69 85 71 90 / 80 60 30 40
Waynesboro 70 88 72 93 / 70 40 10 10
Camden 69 84 71 89 / 70 40 20 30
Crestview 71 86 72 90 / 40 80 50 40
&&
.MOB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
AL...None.
FL...None.
MS...None.
GM...None.
&&In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:38 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Mobile AL
238 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026
MSZ078-242030-
Stone MS-
238 PM CDT Wed Jun 24 2026
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT STONE COUNTY THROUGH 330 PM
CDT...
At 238 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along
a line extending from Poplarville to near Picayune. Movement was
southeast at 30 mph.
HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 40 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
Perkinston and McHenry.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
&&
LAT...LON 3088 8934 3079 8890 3068 8897 3068 8924
3065 8924 3065 8934
TIME...MOT...LOC 1938Z 302DEG 26KT 3084 8953 3054 8972
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...40 MPHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Mobile, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | Stone | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MOB | George | 52 min |
| Jun 24, 3:07 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MOB | Stone | 3 hr |
| Jun 24, 3:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Stone | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 3:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 33 min |
| Jun 24, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | George | 50 min |
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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.