Mississippi, 2014

Damaging Wind in Mississippi, October 2, 2014

October 2, 2014 · NWS MOB · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A thunderstorm produced high winds which caused damage in southeast Mississippi.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$5,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS MOB wrote it up.

A thunderstorm produced high winds which caused damage in southeast Mississippi.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Oct 2, 6:12 PM CST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 6:12 PM CST, 0 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 2, 10:19 AM CST, 7 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
1119 AM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

ALZ051>064-FLZ001>006-MSZ067-075-076-078-079-031630-
CHOCTAW-WASHINGTON-CLARKE-WILCOX-MONROE-CONECUH-BUTLER-CRENSHAW-
ESCAMBIA-COVINGTON-UPPER MOBILE-UPPER BALDWIN-LOWER MOBILE-
LOWER BALDWIN-INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA-
COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA-WAYNE-PERRY-
GREENE-STONE-GEORGE-
1119 AM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
ALABAMA...SOUTHWEST ALABAMA...NORTHWEST FLORIDA AND SOUTHEAST
MISSISSIPPI.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE ACROSS THE REGION
THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT IN ADVANCE OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL BE
APPROACHING THE AREA FROM THE WEST. MOST OF THE ACTIVITY WILL BE OVER
THE WESTERN HALF OF THE FORECAST AREA (GENERALLY ALONG AND EAST OF
I-65). NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY ON FRIDAY IN ASSOCIATION
WITH THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE AREA. THE FRONT WILL BE
MOVING THROUGH DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING AND ATMOSPHERIC
CONDITIONS SUPPORT A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME STRONG TO POSSIBLY
SEVERE.

MUCH COOLER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND AND INTO THE
EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF SKYWARN SEVERE STORM SPOTTER NETWORKS IS NOT EXPECTED
THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

GMZ630>635-650-655-670-675-031630-
NORTHERN MOBILE BAY-SOUTHERN MOBILE BAY-MISSISSIPPI SOUND-
PERDIDO BAY-PENSACOLA BAY SYSTEM-CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY-
COASTAL WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS OUT 20 NM-
COASTAL WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL OUT 20 NM-
WATERS FROM PENSACOLA FL TO PASCAGOULA MS FROM 20 TO 60 NM-
WATERS FROM DESTIN TO PENSACOLA FL FROM 20 TO 60 NM-
1119 AM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE COASTAL
WATERS OF ALABAMA AND NORTHWEST FLORIDA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL BE POSSIBLE BY THE WEEKEND.
A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH ACROSS THE MARINE AREA LATE
FRIDAY WITH A MODERATE TO STRONG OFFSHORE WIND FLOW...AND BUILDING
SEAS...EXPECTED BEHIND THE FRONT. SMALL CRAFT WILL HAVE TO EXERCISE
CAUTION TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK AND SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES MAY BE
NEEDED OVER THE WEEKEND.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 2, 12:38 PM CST, 5 hours 34 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
138 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

MSZ076-079-021900-
GREENE MS-GEORGE MS-
138 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN GREENE AND NORTHERN
GEORGE COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...THROUGH 200 PM CDT...

AT 136 PM CDT...A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED 9
MILES WEST OF LUCEDALE...OR 12 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCLAIN...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LUCEDALE...

THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH.
WINDS THIS STRONG COULD BLOW OFF TREE LIMBS AND ALSO BLOW AROUND
SMALL UNSECURED OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING WIRED
TELEPHONES DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO OUTSIDE PHONE LINES.

HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
GREATLY RESTRICT VISIBILITY AND CREATE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS...WHICH MAY CAUSE VEHICLES TO HYDROPLANE. TRAVELERS ARE
URGED TO USE CAUTION.

&&
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 12:59 PM CST, 5 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
159 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

MSZ076-079-021945-
GREENE MS-GEORGE MS-
159 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN GREENE AND
NORTHEASTERN GEORGE COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...THROUGH 245
PM CDT...

AT 157 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES WEST OF
LUCEDALE...OR 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MCLAIN...AND MOVING EAST AT 10
MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  LUCEDALE...

THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH.
WINDS THIS STRONG COULD BLOW OFF TREE LIMBS AND ALSO BLOW AROUND
SMALL UNSECURED OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.

SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING WIRED
TELEPHONES DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO OUTSIDE PHONE LINES.

HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL
GREATLY RESTRICT VISIBILITY AND CREATE PONDING OF WATER ON
ROADWAYS...WHICH MAY CAUSE VEHICLES TO HYDROPLANE. TRAVELERS ARE
URGED TO USE CAUTION.

&&
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 1:18 PM CST, 4 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
218 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

MSZ067-022015-
WAYNE MS-
218 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN
SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...THROUGH 315 PM CDT...

AT 216 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WAYNESBORO...
OR 7 MILES NORTH OF CLARA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WAYNESBORO...

THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH.
WINDS THIS STRONG COULD BLOW OFF TREE LIMBS AND ALSO BLOW AROUND
SMALL UNSECURED OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.

SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

&&
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 1:59 PM CST, 4 hours 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
259 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

ALZ051-022045-
CHOCTAW AL-
259 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CHOCTAW COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST
ALABAMA...THROUGH 345 PM CDT...

AT 257 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF BUTLER...OR 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NEEDHAM...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
35 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TOXEY...              PENNINGTON...         NEEDHAM...
  LISMAN...             BUTLER...

THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH.
WINDS THIS STRONG COULD BLOW OFF TREE LIMBS AND ALSO BLOW AROUND
SMALL UNSECURED OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.

SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

&&
Special weather statement, Oct 2, 5:26 PM CST, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL
626 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

MSZ067-030000-
WAYNE MS-
626 PM CDT THU OCT 2 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY IN
SOUTHEAST MISSISSIPPI...THROUGH 700 PM CDT...

AT 626 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES NORTHWEST
OF WAYNESBORO...OR 14 MILES NORTH OF CLARA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
15 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  RURAL NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY

THE PRIMARY THREATS FROM THIS STORM ARE WIND GUSTS UP TO 55 MPH.
WINDS THIS STRONG COULD BLOW OFF TREE LIMBS AND ALSO BLOW AROUND
SMALL UNSECURED OBJECTS. SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.

SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF
POSSIBLE. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING WIRED
TELEPHONES DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO OUTSIDE PHONE LINES.

&&

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:12 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Wayne

When
October 2, 6:12 PM CST to 6:14 PM CST
Where
Wayne County, Matherville
Measured
52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
Property damage
$5,000
Reported by
Emergency Manager
Coordinates
31.870, -88.570

Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind
Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 546590.