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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Jackson, MS

March 12, 1986Lauderdale County, Mississippi

NWS Jackson, MS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 12, 1986, 7:41 PM CST for Lauderdale County, Mississippi. It was in force for 19 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 12, 1986, 7:41 PM CST (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Mar 12, 1986, 8:00 PM CST
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, MS
Area: Whole counties

County Lauderdale County, MS

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1429 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 12, 4:16 PM CST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
415 PM CST WED MAR 12 1986

1205 PM CST POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN 5 MILES NORTH OF STRINGER
        IN JASPER COUNTY. MOBILE HOME DESTROYED POWER LINES DOWN
        CONFIRMED BY THE JASPER COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR.
105 PM CST TREES DOWN IN LOST GAP AREA REPORTED BY STATE OFFICIAL.
110 PM CST TWO HOUSES AND A TRAILER DAMAGED NEAR LOST GAP.
110 PM CST GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY THE BAILEY FIRE DEPARTMENT.
115 PM CST GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN AT DALEVILLE COUNTY
        OFFICIAL.
115 PM CST ON HIGHWAY 493 NEAR BAILEY COVINGTON STORE AND HOME
        DESTROYED ALONG WITH TREES IN THE ROAD.
115 PM CST NEAR DALEVILLE HOUSE COLLAPSED AND INJURIES SUSTAINED BY
        LAUDERDALE COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE.
118 PM CST CHURCH STEEPLE TORN OFF BRIARWOOD CHURCH..EXTENSIVE DAMAGE
        SEVERAL HOUSES AND SOME INJURIES REPORTED BY LAUDERDALE CIVIL
        DEFENSE. MAFNY TREES SNAPPED OFF ABOVE THE GROUND.
1235 PM CST JASPER COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE REPORTED TREES DOWN AT MONTROSE.

Local storm report, Mar 12, 4:35 PM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
430 PM CST WED MAR 12 1986

100 PM CST POSSIBLE TORNADO SIGHTED BY PUBLIC STONEWALL IN
       NORTHWEST CLARKE COUNTY.
100 PM CST HIGH WINDS REPORTED 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MERIDIAN.
110 PM CST TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN NORTH MERIDIAN REPORTED
       BY PUBLIC.
112 PM CST IN WEST MERIDIAN A 50 YARD WIDE PATH OF DESTRUCTION
       REPORTED BY LAUDERDALE CIVIL DEFENSE.
110 PM CST 10 MILES NORTH OF MERIDIAN POSSIBLE TORNADO SIGHED BY
       PUBLIC.
125 PM CST THREE TRAILERS DESTROYED AT DALEVILLE REPORTED BY
       LAUDERDALE CIVIL DEFENSE.
115 PM CST TWO HOMES TOTALLY DESTROYED NEAR BAILEY REPORTED BY
       LAUDERDALE CIVIOL DEFENSE.
115PM TO 125 PM CST SEVEN HOMES DAMAGED BETWEEN BAILEY AND DALEVILLE
       REPORTED BY LAUDERDALE CIVIL DEFENSE.

Special weather statement, Mar 12, 4:35 PM CST, 3 hours 6 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 12, 4:45 PM CST, 2 hours 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 12, 4:52 PM CST, 2 hours 49 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MERIDIAN MS
440 PM CST WED MAR 12 1986

140 PM CST TWO MINOR INJURIES ON LIZELIA ROAD 12 MILES NORTH OF
       MERIDIAN.
110 PM CST ONE MINOR INJURY aAT MEEHAN.
120 PM CST TWO MINOR INJURIES AT BAILEY.

ALL ABOVE REPORTS RECEIVED FROM LAUDERDALE CIVIL DEFENSE AROUND
430 PM CST.

Special weather statement, Mar 12, 5:35 PM CST, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, MS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 12, 6:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Clarke, Lauderdale	33 min
Mar 12, 9:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JAN	Sumter	49 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.